Variable speed signs coming

The provincial government will install electronic variable speed signs early next year on three of B.C.’s major highways warning drivers to slow down in bad weather.

Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone says the $12.5-million pilot project is aimed at reducing the frequency of weather-related crashes.

Crews are installing signs along highways 1, 13 and 16.

The province will do three months of testing before the systems go live in early 2016.