Local life · Jul 2026
Why locals trust Highway 4 Pulse
Port Alberni nurses, Ucluelet hotel staff, Tofino kitchen crews — they all run the same mental calculation: Can I make it over the hill on time? The answer used to live in fragmented places. Pulse pulls it together.
Official data, not rumours
Our watcher hits BC's Open511 feed and DriveBC webcam metadata every minute. Construction at Cathedral Grove? You'll see it as AMBER with the actual DBC event text — not a vague "traffic sucks" post.
We deliberately don't scrape Facebook. Eyewitness speed belongs in community tips, clearly marked unverified, so you can weigh it against the official record.
Ten cameras, one grid
No more opening ten DriveBC tabs. Pulse maps the full corridor — Port Alberni through the summit to the coast — with closure flags when MOTI marks them on camera metadata.
Built by someone who drives it
Island Planner isn't a Toronto SaaS team guessing at island life. We live here. Pulse came out of the same frustration you feel when the road closes and your only news source is a comment thread from 2014.
Free, forever, for the corridor
Traffic intelligence shouldn't sit behind a paywall when groceries and payroll depend on it. Pulse is free. The Go Bag and Wild Island packs fund the rest of the site — but the lifeline status board stays open.
That's the deal: we watch the feeds; you drive smarter.