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The Coquihalla Snowshed Protocol: 10 Steps to Highway Safety

February 25, 2022January 12, 2016 34 Comments

[Note: Yellowhead Road & Bridge (Nicola) Ltd. took over the highway maintenance contract for Service Area 14 as of July 1, 2019] BC Highway 5 from Hope to Merritt (also known as the Coquihalla or

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter, Trucking

Alice All Done Tunnel Boring for BC’s Evergreen Line

November 8, 2018November 27, 2015 Leave a comment

After churning through 2 km of dirt and rocks, “Alice”, the Evergreen Line’s tunnel boring machine, took her last bite out of the tunnel between Port Moody and Coquitlam on November 27, 2015. Now that

Categories BC Projects, Engineering, Trucking

A Winter Reminder: Don’t Pass Snow Plows with Flashing Lights

November 17, 2022November 26, 2015 25 Comments

It’s early in the winter driving season, and we’re all getting used to the white stuff again, but we’ve had a couple incidents lately where travellers have tried to pass snow plows on the right

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

Who Ya Gonna Call? Your BC Transportation FAQs

July 31, 2023November 25, 2015 98 Comments

Planning parades, towing boats and RVs, licensing limos or developing rural subdivisions? We hear all kinds of questions about all kinds of topics… It’s natural that many of these questions come to our offices across

Categories Passenger Transportation, Tips and How Tos, Trucking

How to Pack Your Vehicle Emergency Kit in 15 Seconds

November 17, 2022November 12, 2015 19 Comments

We all wish we had ultra-handy skills like MacGyver, right? Right. But let’s face it – we don’t. We cannot fashion a flashlight out of a pop bottle. Nor can we craft winter gloves out

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

On the Case for Safety: Wildlife Detection Systems on Highway 3

November 17, 2022October 21, 2015 7 Comments

If you have travelled BC Highway 3 lately, you might have noticed some special looking signs and equipment being installed at the side of the road. What’s the scoop? Well, because deer, elk, and moose

Categories BC Travellers, Environment, Wildlife

Crashes and Highway Closures: Why the Delay?

November 17, 2022October 19, 2015 39 Comments

When any BC highway is closed due to a crash, some of the questions and comments we get are: “Why is it taking so long to open the road?” “Don’t you just take some pictures

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos

Be Prepared BC – Slow Down, Pull Over and Stay Inside.

October 12, 2023October 14, 2015 2 Comments

When it comes to preparing for an emergency, our friends at PreparedBC know the drill. That’s why we jumped at the opportunity to have them share their valuable insight on what to do if you

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