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Adding “Pow” to the Plow for Winter Safety

May 26, 2022December 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Elementary school children recently painted bright designs on three snowplows and a grader for some educational fun, in Golden. Road maintenance contractor HMC Services Inc. arranged for three fully equipped tandem axle plow trucks and

Categories Shift into Winter
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Winter Driving in the East Kootenays

September 27, 2021December 16, 2013 Leave a comment

  If you live in or travel through the East Kootenays, you know what the weather and the roads have been like lately. If you haven’t been through there in the last couple of weeks,

Categories Road Maintenance, Shift into Winter

How Yule Get Your Christmas Tree Home Safely in 10 Easy Steps

May 1, 2019December 13, 2013 Leave a comment

*Deep inhale* Ahhh. Can you smell that? The sweet scent of Fir – Douglas, Noble, Balsam…? Like smooching under the mistletoe or baking shortbread cookies, hauling the Christmas tree home is a happy holiday tradition

Categories Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Winter Driving on the Wet Coast of BC: Tips for Travelling in Rain and Fog

October 23, 2023November 27, 2013 4 Comments

We have talked a lot about driving in winter conditions and for the most part when we say “winter conditions”, we mean snow and ice. But for a large percentage of British Columbians (those who

Categories Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Why Would a Highwaycam Go Down during a Traffic Incident?

November 23, 2022November 15, 2013 5 Comments

We receive a lot of questions about our BC highwaycams. We’ve talked about some of the more popular ones in You Asked: The Top Five DriveBC WebCam Questions. But lately there’s been another question that’s

Categories BC Travellers, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
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What Lurks Beyond – The Untold Story of the McIntyre Passing Lanes

March 5, 2021October 10, 2013 Leave a comment

In many ways, the McIntyre Passing Lanes project is much like any of our other projects. We’re widening a section of Highway 97, just north of Oliver, so we can put in passing lanes and

Categories BC Projects, Environment

Signpost Ahead: B.C. Highway Speed Limit and Safety Review

January 22, 2021October 4, 2013 28 Comments

We’ve been talking with you recently about how speed limits are set on BC highways. Sounds like some of you are in favour of an increase in limits, while others feel fine with the speed

Categories BC Travellers, Engineering, Trucking

It’s ShakeOut Time: What’s Under Your Desk?

October 14, 2022October 2, 2013 Leave a comment

GUEST POST via Emergency Management BC We’ll never turn down a chance to plug emergency preparedness. So when the folks at TranBC asked us to help promote The Great British Columbia ShakeOut, we wholeheartedly said,

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