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TransCanadaHighway

Share and Share Alike – Federal Sections on Provincial Highways

September 8, 2022December 5, 2018 24 Comments

A strange thing happens when you’re travelling BC’s highways and you head through Rogers Pass, drive a section of Highway 93, cruise alongside Long Beach near Tofino, or travel Highway 97, 133 kilometres north of Dawson

Categories Avalanche Program, BC Travellers, Road Maintenance
BC holiday

The One Way You Should Drive this Long Weekend

February 13, 2024June 30, 2016 5 Comments

What better way to enjoy the long weekend than getting on the highway and enjoying our provincial backyard? Whether the extra time off is due to BC Day, Family Day, Thanksgiving or any other summer,

Categories BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos

Woodenhead a Solid Monument to Highway Safety

July 11, 2022June 7, 2016 17 Comments

A man with a wooden stare is watching over the Trans-Canada Highway at Revelstoke, to see if motorists are driving safely. The man, with his unblinking gaze, was once stationed along the Big Bend Highway

Categories BC Highway History
Ministry trucking being loaded

BC Road Trip Time Machine: Hope to Lytton on BC Highway 1, circa 1966

November 10, 2021January 22, 2016 42 Comments

You asked for it and here it is. Hop aboard our BC Road Trip Time Machine and travel back to Highway 1, through the Fraser Canyon from Hope to Lytton, circa 1966. The significance of

Categories BC Highway History, BC Travellers

Know When to Slow for Weather With Variable Speed Signs

July 2, 2020December 2, 2015 51 Comments

If you are unable to view this video, click here to watch on our YouTube channel. We’re big fans of the maxim: “drive to conditions.” Highway travellers improve their safety dramatically by following those three

Categories BC Travellers, Shift into Winter

Ride the BC Road Trip Time Machine: Highway 1 and Port Mann Bridge 1966

October 6, 2022March 25, 2015 4 Comments

By now, you may have already experienced what it’s like to go back in time through our BC Road Trip Time Machine series. Using an old 16 mm reel from our Photolog program archives, we

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

Behind the Scenes: Traffic Planning for Major Athletic Events

May 27, 2022May 27, 2014 1 Comment

Picture 5,300 cyclists launching from Vancouver, to pedal 122 kilometres up the scenic Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler, in a few hours. Or, imagine more than 2,500 Ironman athletes cycling and running a total of 222

Categories Active Transportation, Environment
BC Highway Garbage Gobbler

The Garbage Gobbler – A Kitschy, Cool and Beloved Piece of BC Highway History

July 11, 2022April 8, 2014 34 Comments

  Let’s take a trip down memory lane shall we? Back to the days when things moved a little more slowly, perhaps around 1959. Slide into a larger vehicle, one built for style, say… an

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, Environment
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