It’s a question that we’ve all asked ourselves: what’s the worst intersection in all of Metro Vancouver? While few of our region’s intersections spark joy, most also do not invoke incandescent rage every time we imagine ourselves crossing the street.
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!
Last week, we asked you to help us narrow down our 16 nominees in the City of Vancouver to eight. Now, we ask you to do the same for our 16 nominees in the Metro Vancouver suburbs, covering a dizzying array of terrible intersections from North Van to North Delta and from Lougheed to Langley.
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.
Here is Round 1, Part 2 – The Suburban Elimination Series:
North of Fraser
BROADWAY ST (Coast Meridian) & MARY HILL BYPASS VS. BRUNETTE AVE & LOUGHEED HWY
Meet the contestants:
- Broadway St (Coast Meridian) & Mary Hill Byp, Port Coquitlam: The Ministry of Transportation lives up to its reputation as the place where safe infrastructure goes to die, with the sidewalk and bike lane built by Port Coquitlam both dumping you directly onto a freeway.
- Brunette St & Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam: It’s fitting that the business located in the middle of this cursed triangle intersection sells tires, because you’ll need new ones after your car gets T-boned by a semi-truck trying to cross here.
Note: We treated this nomination as being for Broadway St, which becomes Coast Meridian Rd north of Lougheed Hwy. A separate Coast Meridian Rd also exists in Mary Hill, but it is a minor side street.
Coast Meridian Rd & Mary Hill Bypass (left) vs. Brunette Ave & Lougheed Hwy (right)
BRUNETTE AVE & BRAID ST VS. CAPILANO RD & MARINE DR
Meet the contestants:
- Brunette Ave & Braid St, New Westminster: The only time when this intersection isn’t clogged with trucks flying every which way is when a 200-car freight train comes blaring through it, obnoxiously honking the entire time. Did we mention it’s also a bike route and next to the SkyTrain?
- Capilano Rd & Marine Dr, District of North Vancouver: Maybe something’s gone wrong when you have three right-turn lanes and a ban on pedestrians crossing the road in the middle of the city. But fixing that would take effort, and local politicians like Councillor Betty Forbes are adamant that the District of North Vancouver doesn’t need to aim for the “gold standard of road safety”.
Brunette Ave & Braid St (left) vs. Capilano Rd & Marine Dr (right)
KENSINGTON AVE & CANADA WAY VS. WILLINGDON AVE & LOUGHEED HWY
Meet the contestants:
- Kensington Ave & Canada Way, Burnaby: It’s one thing to have a terrible intersection with a highway off-ramp. It’s another to route your bike route and Burnaby Lake park trail through the aforementioned terrible intersection with a highway off-ramp.
- Willingdon Ave & Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby: The only amazing thing about this intersection in front of The Amazing Brentwood is how long you have to wait to cross the street beneath a literal SkyTrain station. On the bright side, there’s a protected bike lane… for 60 metres.
Kensington Ave & Canada Way (left) vs. Willingdon Ave & Lougheed Hwy (right)
DEWDNEY TRUNK RD & LOUGHEED HWY VS. 8TH ST & ROYAL AVE
Meet the contestants:
- Dewdney Trunk Rd & Lougheed Hwy & Maple Meadows Way, Maple Ridge: This intersection’s ability to ensnarl traffic across Ridge Meadows when a crash happens (62 times a year!) is rivalled only by the Harris Road level crossing when the CN decides to move 300 train cars of canola oil at rush hour.
- 8th St & Royal Ave, New Westminster: New West is Canada’s second-densest city, with thousands of people living within a short walk of shops, amenities and transit downtown. So of course we’re going to send every car and truck from the Pattullo Bridge barrelling down the road that separates uptown from downtown.
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Lougheed Hwy (left) vs. 8th St & Royal Ave (right)
South of Fraser
112 ST & 80 AVE VS. NO. 3 RD & SEA ISLAND WAY
Meet the contestants:
- 112 St & 80 Ave, Delta: While otherwise fairly unremarkable, this is a rare example of a city actively choosing to make an intersection worse for pedestrians—with Delta opting in 2017 to add a high-speed slip lane that studies repeatedly show make it more dangerous for people to cross the road.
- No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd, Richmond: Take the SkyTrain to the lovely Italian restaurant in the middle of this intersection! Just get off at Capstan, walk through the closed sidewalk, and then cross four slip lanes, six lanes of Sea Island Way, six lanes of Three Road and then jaunt down the narrow sidewalk overgrown with thorny bushes. Fun for the whole family!
112 St & 80 Ave (left) vs. No. 3 Rd & Bridgeport Rd (right)
KING GEORGE & 88 AVE VS. KING GEORGE & 152 ST
Meet the contestants:
- King George Blvd & 88 Ave, Surrey: You know when landlords throw on a new coat of paint on the walls to hide all the damage? Surrey has decided to apply the same principle to road design, hoping that a tasteful dash of red and green will make you forget how terrible it is to cross here.
- King George Blvd & 152 St, Surrey: The bad news? As a pedestrian, you have to cross the street at a diagonal angle, greatly increasing the crossing distance. The good news? You then have to also cross a high-speed slip lane where cars don’t stop. Sorry, did we say good news? We meant more bad news.
King George Blvd & 88 Ave (left) vs. King George Blvd & 152 St (right)
SCOTT RD & 104 Ave vs. GARDEN CITY RD & Granville Ave
Meet the contestants:
- Scott Rd & 104 Ave, Surrey: If you’ve ever thought, “man, I love biking on Highway 17, I just wish there was a protected bike lane to get to the highway on-ramp from Scott Road,” this intersection is a dream come true. For everyone else, it’s a nightmare of high-speed slip lanes, turning cars and bus delay.
- Garden City Rd & Granville Ave, Richmond: Thankfully, Richmond detoured Steveston-bound cyclists onto Citation Dr to avoid this confusing spaghetti intersection. Good luck to everyone else though, who have no such luxury.
Scott Rd & 104 Ave (left) vs. Garden City Rd & Granville Ave (right)
SCOTT RD & NORDEL WAY (88 AVE) VS. FRASER HWY & LANGLEY BYP
Meet the contestants:
- Scott Rd & Nordel Way (88 Ave), Surrey/Delta: Bus riders? Stuck behind right-turning cars. Drivers? Believe it or not, also stuck behind other cars. Cyclists? Expected to cross this terrifying intersection diagonally because Delta built its bike lane on the south side of Nordel but Surrey built its bike lane on the north side.
- Fraser Hwy & Langley Bypass (the one at Willowbrook), Langley Township: This future SkyTrain location gives VCC-Clark a run for its money as the worst pedestrian experience trying to walk out of the station.
Scott Rd & Nordel Way (left) vs. Fraser Hwy & Langley Bypass (right)
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