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What is So Important about Phase Four of the Kicking Horse Canyon?

October 6, 2022February 17, 2017 41 Comments

Rushing rivers and soaring mountains make for a beautiful road trip, but when it comes to widening and improving highways, those same breathtaking features can pose an incredible challenge. Few highways in BC are more

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers

The Shocking Case of the Porthole Peeper

January 4, 2022February 8, 2017 6 Comments

“I was in a hurry.” That was the excuse a Vancouver Island driver gave when one of our CVSE officers stopped him on the Malahat for driving with a mere “porthole” of snow cleared from

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter

What You Need to Know About Winter Weather on the “Coq”

November 30, 2022December 22, 2016 12 Comments

[Note: Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nicola) Ltd. took over the highway maintenance contract for Service Area 14 as of July 1, 2019]. We’ve heard from a few folks recently asking how they can travel the

Categories BC Travellers, Road Maintenance, Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Why Stopping Distances Matter More During the Winter

November 15, 2023December 16, 2016 9 Comments

It’s pretty simple, really. Stopping distance is the distance it takes your vehicle to come to a complete stop once you apply your brakes. The faster you are travelling, the longer it will take you

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter

Evergreen Line Extension – Moments Along the Journey

December 15, 2022December 2, 2016 Leave a comment

We made history achieving the longest fully automated rapid transit system in the world. We also moved it. We reached high, dug deep below, and enhanced wildlife areas along the way. Here is a collection of

Categories BC Infrastructure, BC Projects, Engineering, Environment, Transit

See How Environmental Responsibility Goes with our Transportation Infrastructure

November 6, 2023November 30, 2016 2 Comments

Whenever we update or build BC infrastructure, environmental responsibility is a key part of the process. You’ve driven over, under or through countless examples of our efforts to make BC highways better for everyone and

Categories Environment, Wildlife

Travel Back in Time to the Hope – Princeton Highway in 1966

December 15, 2022September 22, 2016 46 Comments

As many of you already know, we’ve been digitizing 16mm photolog footage from 1966 to give you our BC Road Trip Time Machine video series. We love this stuff and you do to. In fact,

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

How To Travel Back in Time on Vancouver Island Highways

January 6, 2023June 23, 2016 42 Comments

Does the busy modern world have you wishing you could step back in time? We’re happy to say your wish has been granted with this trip down memory lane (or highway)! Climb aboard our BC

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