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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 regional zones in the province. The regional zones are: Vancouver Island (Island Health region); and Northe...

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 your address if you’ve recently moved), and the purpose of your travel. Police won’t be doing arbi...

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 weekend before the order was implemented. Farnworth said resort communities and accommodation businesses ...

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 Emergency Program Act order to prohibit non-essential travel between three regional zones in the provin...

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Province of B.C. April 30, 2021 - 11:13 AM Road checks set up to stop non-essential travel between the Interior Health region and the Lower Mainland will only question the reason the driver is making the trip. Passengers will not be questioned Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said during a news briefing today, April 30, but he did not give a clear explanation as to why not. “The order was constructed on the basis of legal advice, because it is taking place under the Emergency Program Act, under Section 10, that means w...