British Columbia Highway 18

Highway 18 is a short, 42 km (26 mi) long main vehicle route in the Cowichan Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island, connecting the city of Duncan on the Trans-Canada Highway with the community of Youbou, on the north shore of Lake Cowichan. The highway first opened to vehicle traffic in 1953, and was re-routed to a straighter and wider alignment in 1970. An 80 km/h (50 mph) construction speed limit is in effect for the majority of the route because of problems on the highway. No passing is allowed there.

In Late 2006, drivers using Highway 18 experienced broken parts (such as windows with big shatter marks) on their cars, most of these came from loose rocks after passing other drivers. This has generated anger, and is called the "Sealcoat Job" because of the bad gravel sealcoating of the stretch to Duncan from the Cowichan Lake Road junction at Lake Cowichan by the new highway contractor company.

In early 2004, a proposal was brought forward to extend Highway 18 west from Youbou, all the way along existing logging roads to the community of Port Renfrew on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, as a way of rerouting traffic from the northern part of the Island to Victoria in case of a bad accident or any other extraordinary event forcing a closure of the Malahat, a steep section of the Trans-Canada Highway just north of Victoria.

Roads of British Columbia
Provincial highways
  • 12
  • 1A
  • 2
  • 32
  • 3A1
  • 3B
  • 4
  • 4A
  • 52
  • 5A
  • 6
  • 71
  • 7B1
  • 8
  • 9
  • 101
  • 112
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 151
  • 161
  • 172
  • 18
  • 192
  • 19A
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 22A
  • 23
  • 24
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 31A
  • 33
  • 35
  • 37
  • 37A
  • 39
  • 41
  • 43
  • 49
  • 52
  • 77
  • 912
  • 91A2
  • 93
  • 95
  • 95A
  • 972
    • A
    • B
    • C2
    • D
  • 992
  • 101
  • 113
  • 118
  • 395
  • South Fraser Perimeter Road2, 3
Other provincially maintained roads
  • Atlin Road
  • Bridge River Road
  • Cecil Lake Road
  • Coalmont Road
  • Cultus Lake Road
  • Glover Road
  • Head Bay Road
  • Hemlock Valley Road
  • Horsefly Road
  • Jesmond Road
  • Likely Road
  • Mission Mountain Road
  • Nazko Road
  • Omineca Resource Road
  • Pavilion Mountain Road
  • Port Mellon Highway
  • Queen Charlotte City-Skidegate Road
  • Strathcona Parkway
  • Telegraph Creek Road
  • Westside Road
Historical provincial highways
  • 7A
  • 17A
  • 99A
Municipal limited-access roads
  • Barnet Highway1
  • Gaglardi Way1
  • Golden Ears Way2
  • Grant McConachie Way2
  • Knight Street2
  • SW Marine Drive1
  • Marine Way1
  • Russ Baker Way1
Historic roads and trails
  • Alaska Highway
  • Atlin Road
  • Cariboo Road
  • Chilkoot Trail
  • Crowsnest Highway
  • Dewdney Trail
  • Dewdney Trunk Road
  • Douglas Road
  • Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail
  • Lillooet Cattle Trail
  • Nisga'a Highway
  • Okanagan Trail
  • Old Cariboo Road
  • Old Yale Road (Grand Trunk Road)
  • River Trail
  • Whatcom Trail
See also Vancouver Roads
  • 1 denotes highways with expressway sections
  • 2 denotes highways with expressway and freeway sections
  • 3denotes highways under construction


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