Rigging a camera to the car’s dash, the department created a visual record of all 9,000 kilometres of B.C.’s roads — from Fort St. John to Vancouver Island north, including local shots from Swartz Bay past the Malahat to Kelsey Bay near Sayward.
The camera took still images every 26 metres and put them together as a single film photolog, saving engineers time to monitor road conditions and plan safety improvements without having to travel, according to TranBC. Combing off-site archives and resurrecting old-school tech in recent years, the ministry recovered the 16 mm film reels and slowed them down to 30 per cent of their actual speed for easier viewing.
While TranBC now uses a specialized van called an automatic road analyzer with computers, lasers, GPS and high-definition cameras to collect information about highways, the videos from the 60s offer some a glimpse of the past and others a flood of memories.TranBC’s Malahat video was the first of the series and captures the well-known Highway 1 route starting near McKenzie Avenue in Victoria through Langford, along Goldstream and up the Malahat toward the Cowichan Valley.
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