Saturday makes for time to Shift Thinking towards winter travels on BC highways

 

The City's Tire and Auto Service shops are about to 
busy, busy, busy over the next month or so
as the annual tire change takes place

For those with plans to drive beyond the Port Edward Turnoff on Saturday and through the fall and winter driving season, the rush is on to get the annual changeover from Summer to Winter tires. 

Tomorrow marks the last day for travel on British Columbia highways without proper tires with the proper tread installed on your vehicles.

The relatively nice weather for much of September perhaps has caught many motorists off guard and that will make for a few delays as the city's garages and tire shops deal with the annual flood of customers new and old that start arrive over the next few weeks.

With the arrival of Fall comes the time to start to think of the changing weather that quickly comes to the North Coast and Northwest and the need to Shift into Winter driving mode for motorists, with The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure offering a range of information through its annual program, which is celebrating it's fourteenth year of awareness raising this year.

You can learn more about the Winter Tire requirements across the province here.

For those travelling the Highways of the Northwest this fall and into winter, keeping Drive BC as a handy resource is a useful guide to what's ahead on the roads, as well you can check our roster of Highway Cameras across the region for a heads up along the way.

More notes on Highway travel across the region can be explore from our archive page here.  

Extreme weather events can be reviewed from our archive page here.