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Trans-Canada Improvements (and Delays) Ahead: How You Can Be Prepared

August 27, 2024June 6, 2024 21 Comments

The Trans-Canada Highway is the primary route connecting BC to the rest of Canada and it’s getting several improvements over the coming years, as a part of our Kamloops-Alberta Four-Laning Program. Much of what makes

Categories BC Travellers, Cone Zone, Feature Articles, Trucking

Four Laning BC Highway 1: Your Questions Answered

June 20, 2024July 21, 2021 148 Comments

If you’ve driven in British Columbia, chances are pretty good you’ve been on the Trans-Canada Highway. It’s the primary east-west connection through our beautiful province, our main gateway to the rest of Canada, and a

Categories BC Projects, BC Travellers, Trucking

Getting Goldstream River Going in the Right Direction

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 Leave a comment

A large, woody debris jam, formed during a flood in February 2020 along the Goldstream River near Victoria, set the scene for several significant improvements to be made in the area. You see, this important

Categories BC Projects, Environment, Wildlife

How We Keep Traffic Moving in Avalanche Country

July 11, 2022November 16, 2016 4 Comments

Our avalanche control towers are operated remotely, to take down hazardous snowpack looming over the Trans-Canada Highway at Three Valley Gap near Revelstoke.

Categories Avalanche Program, Emergency Events

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

Categories BC Travellers

Understanding Highway Maintenance on Vancouver Island

November 16, 2020May 15, 2012 23 Comments

From Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the extreme west coast conditions of Ucluelet and Tofino, you will find ocean, rain, rushing rivers, sunshine, dense rainforest, snow – even glaciers! The

Categories Road Maintenance

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