RoadsBC is a free network of BC travel-status sites: ten corridor and ferry status sites plus this hub, which shows every route at a glance.
The hub is a presentation layer — it never classifies status itself. It reads the live status published by each corridor site.
RoadsBC is built and maintained by Scott Mitchell in Victoria, BC.
This started with the Malahat — the highway out of my own community — after watching people try to work out whether it was open before a commute, checking one camera, then another, then a map, for an answer that should take a second. It worked, so I built the same thing for every major BC corridor with the same problem.
Every corridor site reads DriveBC's public Open511 API, polled every five minutes. Events are filtered to that corridor and classified on two independent axes: an acute status (open, delayed, closed, avalanche control) that drives the banner, and a chronic state (work zones, winter conditions) that shows only as a badge and never changes the banner colour on its own.
Some corridors additionally compare live TomTom drive times against typical travel time, using a 10% threshold, to avoid escalating on construction that isn't actually slowing traffic.
To be plain about it: the classification is our reading of DriveBC's data, not DriveBC's own wording.
The guiding principle is that the banner must never contradict the webcams. When confidence is low we prefer showing open with a badge over a speculative delay — but any full-closure signal always wins.
RoadsBC reports what DriveBC publishes, so it is only ever as current as the official feed, and cannot show conditions DriveBC has not yet reported.
Errors can be reported to hello@roadsbc.com and will be corrected promptly. In an emergency, official channels and emergency services take precedence.
Sponsors never influence road status classification, closure reporting, or safety content.
Sponsored placements are always visually distinct and labelled as such.
Sponsorship is not available on the winter tire requirements page, because that page gives guidance on legal requirements and a commercial placement there would be a conflict.
RoadsBC runs no programmatic advertising, no retargeting pixels, and no third-party tracking scripts.
RoadsBC maintains an archive of 10,787 DriveBC closure records dating back to 2013.
Not affiliated with DriveBC, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, or any government body.