標題: Closures on two highways during morning commute [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-1-14 07:39 標題: Closures on two highways during morning commute
Closures on two highways during morning commute
Problems on Highways 1 and 5
News1130 Staff Jan 14, 2011 06:16:16 AM
Be the first to Comment 0 Recommendation(s) LOWER MAINLAND (NEWS1130) - There are closures on three highways this morning.
Highway 1:
A landslide has shutdown the eastbound lanes of Highway 1 between Rosedale and Hope.
Kim Seale in the News1130 Air Patrol says this is an area notorious for slides. "Any given year, there are two to three slides in that area. It always develops after some freezing and thawing... The rock up there is like peanut brittle; it just sort of breaks off and chips off, and you get piles of it coming across the road."
Drive BC is hoping to have the eastbound lanes reopened by noon, although there's no guarantee. Traffic is being rerouted along Highway 7 through Agassiz.
Highway 5:
The Coquihalla Highway is closed to northbound traffic just south of Merritt due to an earlier accident. Drive BC is expecting to re-open the route at 8:30 a.m.
Highway 99:
The Sea to Sky Highway has re-opened to traffic north of Horseshoe Bay after a small landslide at Eagle Ridge Bluffs earlier this morning.
Listen for traffic and weather together every 10 minutes on the ones. Follow @News1130Traffic for up-to-the-minute traffic updates.
