Winter tire requirements now in effect for most B.C. highways

As of Tuesday, winter tires are required to thrust connected astir British Columbia highways.

B.C. requires wintertime tires oregon chains by instrumentality connected astir routes betwixt Oct. 1 and March 31, and done to April 30 connected routes that see upland passes oregon precocious snowfall areas.

The regulations bash not use to galore parts of the Lower Mainland and southeastern Vancouver Island, owed to milder temperatures. However, immoderate routes, specified arsenic the Malahat and Sea-to-Sky highways, inactive necessitate wintertime tires.

Drivers who neglect to comply with the regulations look being turned backmost and perchance fined.

Tires that conscionable B.C.’s wintertime road regulations for idiosyncratic vehicles see all-season mud and snowfall (M+S) tires, though the Ministry of Transportation recommends tires marked with the three-peaked “mountain and snowflake” symbol.

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Tires should beryllium successful bully condition, with a minimum tread extent of 3.5 millimetres.

Commercial vehicles nether 11,794 kilograms indispensable beryllium equipped with wintertime tires oregon transportation tyre chains, portion trucks implicit that bounds indispensable transportation chains.

You tin find much information, including maps outlining routes with wintertime tyre requirements, at the Ministry of Transportation website.