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May 05, 2021 - 3:38 PM As promised, the RCMP in B.C. have announced officers are going to start road checks to make sure people are travelling between merged health regions for essential reasons only. Police had stated that they would notify the travelling public about such checks in advance but the news release issued today, May 5, does not say what time or what days they will be in operation, just that they start tomorrow. “The checks are part of the provincial enforcemen...

Shoihet said there would be notification signage before each road check, with u-turn routes. “People travelling for essential reasons through those areas can expect traffic delays,” she said. Commercial vehicles will not be subject to road checks. Shoihet said the RCMP was acting under the Emergency Program Act in banning non-essential travel between the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and North/Interior due to COVID-19. No road checks are planned for the Island, but B.C. ...

Manning Park (Shutterstock) BC RCMP announced today they will be establishing COVID-19 Travel Restriction Road Checks at select locations starting this Thursday, May 6, as part of the provincial ban on non-essential travel. Road Checks will be located at: Highway 1 in the Boston Bar area; Highway 3 in the Manning Park area; Highway 5 in the Old Toll Booth area; Highway 99 in the Lillooet area. Police said signage will be in place informing travellers of upcoming road check locations and providi...

by Rossland Telegraph on Monday May 03 2021 Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore said she regrets the concern this has caused in the community and any issues for council. Another West Kootenay Mayor is coming under fire for travelling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore recently travelled south of the 49 th parallel get vaccinated, while at the same time spending time with family. Despite having dual citizenship, and announcing ahead of time that she was t...

Posted: May 03, 2021 7:20 PM PT | Last Updated: May 4 Rossland, B.C., Mayor Kathy Moore, a dual Canadian-American citizen, has apologized for what she now says was a wrong decision to travel to the U.S. for COVID-19 vaccines and to visit family. (City of Rossland)

B.C. enables road checks to enforce travel restrictions SHARE ON: Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. (Supplied by B.C. Government Flickr) The B.C. Government will allow site-specific road checks on corridors between regions to enforce the travel restrictions imposed on April 23rd. Regulations imposed last Friday prohibit non-essential travel between three regional health zones in B.C. The zones are as follows: Interior Health and Nothern Health regions. Fraser Hea...

Posted: April 30, 2021 Road-checks planned to limit non-essential travel The provincial government announced today it has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions to help enforce the non-essential travel restrictions that were announced on April 23. On the advice of B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, issued an Emergency Program Act order to prohibit non-essential travel between three regiona...

Police road checks added to further enforce B.C. non-essential travel ban SHARE ON: The province is adding a new layer to its non-essential travel ban. From now until May 25th, there will be counter-attack style, police road checks set up on highway corridors that connect B.C.’s health zones. If you get stopped at one of them, you could be asked for: your name, address and driver’s license, documentation regarding your name and address (for example, secondary identification that confirms yo...

Under the order, non-essential travel is banned between three regional zones in the province: • 1. Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley (Fraser Health and Coastal Health regions); • Vancouver Island (Island Health region); • Northern/Interior (Interior Health and Northern Health regions). During the first weekend of the new travel restrictions, BC Ferries vehicle traffic was down more than 25 per cent fleet-wide and passenger traffic was down more than 30 per cent, compared to the weeken...

by Province of British Columbia on Friday Apr 30 2021 To help keep communities safe and protect British Columbia’s health-care system from COVID-19, the Province has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions to help enforce the non-essential travel restrictions that were announced on April 23, 2021. On the advice of B.C.’s provincial health officer (PHO), Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, issued an Eme...