Coquihalla Highway. Hope to Merritt British Columbia.
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- vridetv.com Motorcycle riding on The Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) from Hope to Merritt in British Columbia, Canada.
This is the 18th and final video for our Escape Parked Motorcycle Syndrome with VRIDETV series. more at www.vridetv.com/xlvideos.html
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Thank you for documenting this beautiful drive. I've always loved driving up and down the Coquihalla, I miss it so much now that I've moved out east. There's nothing else quite like it here.
You’re very welcome & thanks for watching.
I agree it’s an incredible area 🙏
It's nice to see it without snow for once. That's what you get when you watch Highway Thru Hell....
Love that show! Those tow truck operators are hard core working in those crazy weather conditions!!!!
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Thanks for the ride, Buddy, I enjoyed the whole tour. I went the same way in Summer 2009 - great memory. Greetings from Germany, Michael
At about the 25:50 point of this excellent video, 'you' pass the former location of the 14 lane wide Toll Plaza. It had 13 toll booths all in the north/east bound lanes. (You were essentially paying for a round trip whether you were going one way or not.)
Tolls were collected from 1986 through to 2008 and of course varied from a low rate for motorcycles, up for passenger vehicles, to single rear axle medium duty trucks, to tractor trailers, to double transport rigs (BTrains). 🇨🇦
Yes indeed, I paid a toll there many times over the years ✅
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Makes me want to get on the bike and go to Merritt right now. Can't wait for summer! Thanks for sharing this nice video.
Brings back some memories for me your video , drove Coquihalla about 5 times bought directions to Bc and to Calgary , once in 2006 in RV with my family and 2013 in a Big Rig , can be a scary mountain ⛰ at times ,thanks for sharing bud 👍👍
One of the good thing about this way of driving is - there is nothing to worry about the weather, because the weather is always the best it can be. The weather always becomes major concern whenever I personally go there for driving in person. But now I am having the same pleasure completely worry free!
thanks for the video man. loved taking the coch its so beautiful.
A lengthy comment about the history of the Coquihalla Highway route from Hope to Merritt BC was posted today partly as a correction to Neil MacKenzie's claim that this section of what's now designated as a portion of BC's Highway 5 was built prior to 1972 under the government of Premier WAC Bennett.
A brief history of the highway route which opened during May of 1986 (largely following the former route of the Kettle Valley Railway) is included. 🇨🇦
Thank you for the info 🙏
We drove Vancouver to Jasper via Kamloops in 2016 and Vancouver to Calgary last year both times in September , great drives and a good time of the year . The previous time we had done those roads was back in 1971 on what was called the Yellow Head trail in those days from Jasper heading west was mainly gravel . A lot easier now !!
This is beautiful
Greetings from Ireland, that's AWESOME,thank you.
This was the route of the 2nd day of our first Canada trip in 2008, continued on 97C to Kelowna, very nice to see it again. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like it's uphill the whole entire drive!
Amazing landscape.
I hop someday you and all those individuals who enjoy introducing this kind of videos - you will begin to cover every highways, roads and cities in Canada, United States, Europe and the rest of the world...! I wish you good luck!
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We’re chipping away covering the Canadian roads & Highways.
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いつか、こんな素晴らしい景色の中をバイクで走ってみたい。
thanks for posting this. Planning to drive my electric car and uphills are a electric cars worst nightmare. Do you think going east has more hills going up than west from hope to merrit?
actually ill just watch your video again and count the hills lol
I've driven this highway dozens of times. Lots of ups and downs but definitely climbing from Hope (135 feet above sea level) to Merritt (2041 feet above sea level).
always like your videos :)
just checkin in, hope all is good
Very nice ride. What's the speed limit for motorcycles?
It was 75 mph but was lowered to 65
The speed limit on most of it is 120 km/h
wonderful fun..
sure is beautiful
Beautiful !
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you did not answer my question why was it built
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Premier Bill Bennett's dream of a four lane freeway to British Columbia's interior. I just wish they had continued it right to the Alberta boundary. I believe it's 30 years young now.
If you've got half an hour, and don't mind 80s hype music, this documentary on the construction of the Coq is a good watch.
czcams.com/video/lOJa2H-m_IE/video.html
It was also built to complement Expo '86
the speed is right the sound is not
The camera is located right front of the hood outside the car, that is the reason why the hood is not visible. All what we have is a complete beautiful scenery - just like three dementianal camera. It is a work of a genious and professional cameraman. He knows! How to make the video interesting, enjoyable and attractive. Excelent achievement!
Yes; it's a very well shot video bringing back many memories of driving the route between 1986 and 2004 under a wide variety of conditions.
However the reason that "the hood" that you mention isn't visible is because motorcycles don't have one! 🏍 🛵 🏍
Would have been even better with some light music …boreing!
No music ✅
Just the sound of the bike ✅
And the wind in your face ✅
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Built in 2 months in the W.A.C. Bennett days , when you got a bang out of your tax payers buck
You’re absolutely right!
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Back when the government actually gave a shit about the people and everything wasn't such a fucking scam
The Coq was largely built in about 20 months, intending to open coinciding with Expo 86 in Vancouver during early May! It officially opened from Hope to Merritt on May 16th, 1986. (I first drove it up to the 14-lane Toll Plaza on the Coquihalla Summit about two weeks later between early morning and late afternoon Mountain 🐐 Goat summer range population survey flights with Valley Helicopters, in that area. I.e. As Wildlife Biologists with the BC Wildlife Branch, in this case, funded by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Highways' Coquihalla Hwy environmental impact assessment activities.)
Planning including surveying the route from Hope to Merritt began during Premier Dave Barrett's NDP government from 1972 to 1975. However the vast majority of it was built during Mini WAC's tenure. I.e. Premier Bill Bennett was WAC Bennett's son.
It was a Toll Highway from 1986 through to 2008!
The speed limit was the highest in BC at 110 km/hr (68 mph). It was raised to 120 klicks (75 mph) during 2014. The province implemented a variable speed limit corridor around the Coquihalla Summit during 2016, in an attempt to increase safety during adverse weather conditions.
The Hope to Merritt portion of the Coquihalla Hwy (5) largely follows the former route of the Kettle Valley Railway (although that line avoided the steep grades associated with the Coquihalla Summit). All of the stations and railway maintenance points were named after Shakespeare characters, many of which remain as named locations and intersections along the present highway. E.g. Othello, Iago, Portia, Juliette, etc.
PS i was a resident of British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦 for 31 years working in the field of wildlife conservation and environmental management.
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