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🇨🇦 DriveBC ~ BC road events & closures (Open511)

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Keyless Open511-standard API of live provincial-highway events (accidents, construction, closures, weather) filterable by severity, in JSON or XML.

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curl 'https://api.open511.gov.bc.ca'

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API: DriveBC ~ BC road events & closures (Open511)
Provider: DriveBC (BC Ministry of Transportation)
Endpoint: GET https://api.open511.gov.bc.ca
It returns JSON (live data).

Source: DriveBC (BC Ministry of Transportation) (https://api.open511.gov.bc.ca/help)
Source type: Official public feed
Endpoint type: Direct public JSON endpoint
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-05
Production caveat: Still handle downtime, changing fields, empty responses, and rate limits before shipping user-facing alerts.

Help me fetch this and build a simple page that displays it nicely. Include basic production safeguards for errors, empty responses, schema changes, caching, and rate limits.

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