Get on board our BC Road Trip Time Machine as we travel down BC Highway 7A between Burnaby and Coquitlam as it was in 1966. Starting in the summer of 1966, the ministry (then called the “Highways Department”) began a photo log to create a visual record of all 9,000 kilometres of B.C.’s roads, from Fort St. John down to the tip of Vancouver Island. The photo log was made by rigging a camera to the dash of a car that took still images every 80 feet and then putting it all together as a single film. This saved engineers time by allowing them to monitor road conditions without travelling to the site and plan safety improvement projects from their headquarters in Victoria. Today, the ministry uses a specialized van called an Automatic Road Analyzer with computers, lasers, GPS and high definition cameras to collect information about our highways and roads. Check out more: [ Ссылка ]
