News / Torrential rain washes out roads and railways, cutting links from Vancouver port

Ministry of transport and infrastructure, British Columbia

For the second time this year, severe weather has severed cargo flows between Canada’s largest port and the interior.

Torrential rain has halted rail traffic to and from the port of Vancouver and paralysed major road arteries linking the area to the rest of the country.

Storms battered southern parts of British Columbia, a mountainous and heavily forested area, dumping as much as 252 millimetres of rain on parts of the province in just 48 hours, washing away sections of major highways ...