Archive for May, 2008

Highspeed Truck Chase In Maple Ridge

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Early this morning I had a couple of people mention to me how there was a high speed chase which involved a 10-tonne truck on Lougheed highway south of Maple Ridge (near Albion). Video footage of the chase was captured by the Global 1 traffic helicopter.

Watch Video of the Truck Chase in Maple Ridge

It is intersting to see how the driver of the truck just weaves back and forth on the road without actually hurting any one in the …

Day Trip: Bowen Island

Monday, May 26th, 2008

If you do not live on the West (Wet) coast of British Columbia you may not know that there are a bunch of smaller islands between the mainland and Vancouver Island and these smaller islands are great for exploring as a day trip. This brings us to one of the more popular islands that is serviced by BC Ferries: Bowen Island.

To get to Bowen Island is fairly simple for both foot traffic and vehicles. Take the Bowen Island …

BC Ferries Super “C” Class

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Now most people in the Metro Vancouver area have heard about the FastCat Fiasco back in 1990’s where the Provincial Government decided they would spend a large sum of money on the custom-designed high-speed catamaran ferries for BC Ferries. Well in short the program cost more than double than what was expected ($210 Million to $460 Million) and was about 3 years behind too. So they were sold back to the person who sold them to the Provincial Government …