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Whether they had a scary experience there themselves or know someone who did, everyone in Metro Vancouver has a least favourite intersection. They might induce fear, rage, confusion, or just plain suck.
But we wanted to know: which intersection sucks the most?
So we asked our followers on Bluesky and Instagram to nominate their least favourite intersections and selected 32 of the scariest, nastiest, most confusing ones throughout the region for a community vote.
In doing so, we aim not only to crown a Grand Winner (Loser?), but also to highlight the reality that safety often comes last when our governments design roads. Each year, 100 people are killed on our roads in Metro Vancouver. Together, we can advocate for safer road designs to bring that number down to zero. Join us in our fight to make that a reality!
The Bracket
32 intersections enter, 1 intersection leaves with the inaugural title of 2025’s Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver.
We’ve selected 32 nominations and grouped them into four regions: East Van, West Side*, North of Fraser and South of Fraser.
In Rounds 1, 2 and 3, we’re narrowing down our nominees in each region until we end up with a champion from each part of Metro Vancouver. Round 4 will see East Van pitted against the West Side to crown Vancouver’s worst intersection, while a Suburban Series will decide which bank of the Fraser is home to our worst engineering fail. Finally, Round 5 is the grand championship that will decide who takes home the great honour (shame?) of the Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver.
Without further ado, here is Round 1, Part 1 – The Vancouver elimination series:
Round 1 – Vancouver’s West Side*
Main & East 2nd Ave vs. Cambie & West 7th Ave
Meet the contestants:
- Main St & East 2nd Ave: Walking to the shops and bars in Olympic Village or to the SkyTrain station two blocks away? Hope you enjoy crossing six lanes of traffic in any direction!
- Cambie St & West 7th Ave: The Off-Broadway bike route that Ken Sim claims is so good we don’t need bike lanes on Broadway meets every right turning car leaving Canadian Tire.
East & West Blvd & West 41st Ave vs. Granville & SW Marine
The contestants:
- The Boulevards & West 41st Ave & Arbutus Greenway: Good news? The city is improving this intersection so that bikes and pedestrians don’t have to squeeze into a tiny crosswalk. Bad news? It won’t be until Fall 2026 at earliest. Worse news? There’s still going to be two traffic lights 25 metres from each other trapping every R4 bus and car in Kerrisdale for eons.
- Granville St & SW Marine Dr: Two bridges, a high-speed interchange, terrible pedestrian infrastructure, a weird bus exchange underneath a highway, and a six-block gap between the Arbutus Greenway and Kent Avenue Bikeway. What could go wrong?
Granville Island Seawall vs. Main & Kingsway & East 7th Ave
The contestants:
- Granville Island Seawall (Anderson St): Home to our famous brick video, pedestrians and cyclists emerging from a blind spot behind a bridge column have to dodge four lanes of cars to cross a road, with no help except from a bit of paint.
- Main St & Kingsway & East 7th Ave: Vancouver’s infamous triangle intersection, delaying buses, confusing drivers, detouring cyclists and befuddling pedestrians since its creation.
Pender & Georgia vs. Quebec & Terminal
The contestants:
- W Pender St & W Georgia St: The only thing that makes this intersection easier to navigate is that you’ll have plenty of time to process when Lions Gate Bridge traffic inevitably backs up into it.
- Quebec St & Terminal Ave: Does it make sense that you can’t cross the south side of this intersection because of an abandoned streetcar stop that hasn’t seen a single passenger since the Olympics? No but we’re going to do that anyways.
Round 1 – East Vancouver
Commercial & Broadway vs. Clark & East 10th Ave
The contestants:
- Commercial Dr & E Broadway: Passengers at one of North America’s busiest transit exchanges got real familiar with this intersection when the escalator replacement forced everyone changing trains or catching a 99 bus to cross seven lanes of traffic.
- Clark Dr & East 10th Ave: Despite repeated deaths and injuries near this popular bikeway crossing of a truck route, the city insists it’s too busy paying someone to film the intersection to make any improvements.
Victoria & Kingsway vs. Nanaimo & Broadway
The contestants:
- Victoria Dr & Kingsway: Almost every intersection with Kingsway is terrible, but two drive-thrus and a gas station turn the pedestrian experience at Victoria into a real-life game of Frogger.
- Nanaimo St & E Broadway: Come for the $2.95 breakfast at Bon’s. Stay because you got hit by a car trying to cross seven lanes of Broadway at a diagonal angle.
Boundary & Kingsway vs. Knight & E 41st Ave
The contestants:
- Boundary Rd & Kingsway: Okay, technically half this intersection is in Burnaby. Unfortunately, that’s also the half that the BC Parkway bike route uses to cross Kingsway, where Burnaby has decided to install high-speed slip lanes for turning cars.
- Knight St & East 41st Ave: What do you get when you cross one of the city’s only 24-hour restaurants, one of South Van’s only bars and the intersection of two seven-lane roads full of trucks? 96 yearly crashes, apparently.
Boundary & Highway 1 vs. Knight & Kingsway
The contestants:
- Boundary Rd & Highway 1 & Grandview Hwy: They say a picture speaks a thousand words. See below.
- Kingsway & Knight St: Amazing restaurants. Not so amazing crosswalks. If you want to decide for yourself whether you’re on Team Po Kong or Team Sun Bo Kong, you’ll have to cross seven lanes of Kingsway to do it.
* Before Justin McElroy points it out, we are aware that Main Street is technically two blocks into East Van. Unfortunately, “West Side and two blocks of East Van” was not a very pithy title.
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