BC Highways - discussion and photos

[Starsteward]

Jul 8, 2014 7:19:47 GMT -8 Cable Cassidy said:

Yesterday I heard a commercial on the radio for Sunbury Cedar, and they were talking about how easy it is to access via the new "South Fraser Perimeter Highway". That was, until last night when Karl mentioned it, the first I ever heard it called that.

    Count me in as well for never having heard the term "South Fraser Perimeter Highway", which is a bit of a mouthful.

    If you'd like to see 'spaghetti on a map", have a Google look-see at the highway configuration as the SFPH links up with the access to the Port Mann bridge and the Mary 

    Hill interchange. The whole Mary Hill interchange is quite the engineering undertaking, considering what was in place before the whole project started.

[Low Light Mike]

Sinclair Canyon on Hwy-93 in Kootenay National Park (just outside Radium Hot Springs, BC) is a dramatic portion of highway.
- here's what it looked like to me, on September 16, 2014

[Low Light Mike]

A few photos (from a moving car) of the westbound trip down the Anarchist summit hill, east of Osoyoos, BC
- seen by the Horn family on September 18, 2014 on a misty desert day.

A few stills:













The video will be posted soon.

[Low Light Mike]

...and the Anarchist video is here:



A "take it slow, settle in for a long hill" type of drive.

[Low Light Mike]

Province of BC is working on their 10-year Transportation Plan.

No, not BC Ferries, just the other stuff.

Website HERE which is a glossy/fluffy report and there is a generic survey questionnaire at the end.

[compdude787]

Oct 7, 2014 15:06:16 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Province of BC is working on their 10-year Transportation Plan.

No, not BC Ferries, just the other stuff.

Website HERE which is a glossy/fluffy report and there is a generic survey questionnaire at the end.

Well, I expect nothing less from the BC Gov't to consider their asphalt highways separate from their self-propelled, floating highways that are their ferries. 

[Low Light Mike]

....and here's my video of Sinclair Canyon, on BC's Hwy-93.

Just east of Radium village, and west of the Radium hot springs, in Kootenay National Park.

The narrow and tall canyon route is one of my favourite pieces of roadwork in BC

[Low Light Mike]

Hwy 93 at Sinclair Canyon, near Radium Hot Springs, BC.
- seen by me in September 2014.

A dramatic piece of roadway.

[Low Light Mike]

BC Hwy-4 has its narrowest parts near here, above Kennedy Lake.
- I saw it on January 31st 2015





An area of the road that needs to be respected.
- I snapped these photos while I was walking to a viewpoint.

[Deleted]

In case you were wondering why Stone bumped up the speed limits...

From The Province

B.C.’s Minister of Transportation Todd Stone admitted on Friday to recently being pulled over by police and fined $196 for speeding, an incident he described as unacceptable but in no way a reflection of his ability to serve in cabinet.

Stone, the MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson, said he was pulled over three weeks ago while speeding along the Patricia Bay Highway en route to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. He said he was going 29 km/h over the posted 80 km/h speed zone.

“I paid the ticket and obviously, this isn’t acceptable and I’ve got to set a better example for British Columbians,” he said. “I’ve taken it to heart, and I’m going to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Stone, whose wife and three kids were with him at the time, said he immediately notified Premier Christy Clark and his caucus colleagues of the incident.

“Her response to me was I think general disappointment, but you know bottom line we both agreed it’s not acceptable and it’s not acceptable for any of us, whether you are elected or not, you should be driving to, or below the posted speed limits, not beyond them,” he said. “I assured her that I was going to learn from this and not let it happen again.”

It is not the first time Stone has been ticketed for speeding. In 2000, he said his licence was suspended for 1-2 months as a result of five speeding tickets he received in a single year. Since then, however, Stone said he has only been ticketed twice — the last time being three weeks ago.

“I’m as committed to doing everything I can to enhance safety on B.C.’s highways and roads,” Stone said when asked if the ticket compromised his ability to serve as minister of transportation. “And I think I’ve demonstrated in the last two years that I’ve been the minister a significant number of initiatives that have done exactly that.

“That all being said, it is not acceptable to speed. I completely acknowledge that and I’ve said to everyone around me that I’m going to learn from this and not let it happen again.”

Stone also serves as the deputy house leader.

Premier Clark was unavailable for comment.

www.theprovince.com/transportation+minister+ticketed+speeding+says+unacceptable/10982162/story.html

[WettCoast]

Stone is carrying on in the tradition of 'Flying' Phil Gaglardi, highways minister back in the 1960's under WAC Bennett.  Gaglardi, on the other hand, worked in concert with Bennett to improve access to all parts of BC, including the coastal bits.  Stone works to cut coastal bits off, punishing them for their voting habits.

[paulvanb]

Remember Moe Sihota and Robyn Allen???

[WettCoast]

Apr 18, 2015 11:10:52 GMT -8 paulvanb said:

Remember Moe Sihota and Robyn Allen???

Did either of them get speeding tickets while serving as Highways Minister, run red lights or get convicted for impaired driving?

[paulvanb]

Robyn did!

[WettCoast]

Apr 19, 2015 12:05:14 GMT -8 paulvanb said:

Robyn did!

To my knowledge Robyn Allen was never an elected official of government in BC.  I believe that she headed up ICBC at one time.  But she was not an MLA & certainly not a cabinet minister.  Having said that I would agree that anyone heading up ICBC should probably have a squeaky clean driving record.

[paulvanb]

There was a song that I downloaded a number of years ago done to the tune My Sharona called Moe Sihotoa. Robyn Allen was not elected but appointed I am assuming by Moe, however, there a line referring to her 21 penalty points at the time. :-0