The semi-final votes are in: you’ve narrowed our 32 intersections down to the Grand Finale, pitting Vancouver’s triangular terror at Main & Kingsway against Richmond’s chaotic crossroads at No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way.
About the Bracket
If you’re joining us for the first time, 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 draw attention to some particularly nasty examples of bad intersection design, but also to shine a light on the wider problem that Metro Vancouver’s roadways often prioritize throughput over safety. Whether you are a pedestrian, cyclist, transit rider, or driver, you deserve to get to your destination safely—and that begins by taking action to demand safer streets from our governments.
Meet Vancouver’s finalist: 7th Ave & Main St & Kingsway
You know it. You hate it. It’s the triangular terror in the heart of Mount Pleasant that drives drivers crazy, traps transit riders in endless delays, petrifies pedestrians who have to cross three(!) crosswalks to get to the library, and sends cyclists on circuitous detours.
Main & Kingsway romped through its competition, easily defeating 15 worthy opponents to claim the title of worst intersection in the City of Vancouver. Nothing could stand in its way: not the Granville Island Seawall (of brick fame), not its Coal Harbour doppelgänger of Pender & West Georgia, not the spaghetti jumble at the foot of the Arthur Laing Bridge, and not the highway off-ramp hell that is Boundary & Grandview Hwy.
Will its winning streak extend one more round, or has Richmond produced a worthy adversary to claim it all?
Meet Richmond’s finalist: No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd
What do you get when you cross frantic flyers headed to the airport, caffeinated commuters rushing to the Arthur Laing Bridge, SUV-driving shoppers dashing towards Superstore and Costco, and confused cyclists trying to get from the West Dyke to the Canada Line Bridge? Apparently, according to your votes, you get the worst intersection in the Metro Vancouver suburbs.
No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way overcame some tough competition to get to the finals, seeing off Delta’s 112 St & 80 Ave (where the city actively made the intersection more dangerous to cross in 2017), eking past Surrey’s King George & 88 Ave, beating its inter-Richmond adversary of Garden City & Granville Ave, and finally vanquishing New West’s infamous truck route intersection at Brunette & Braid.
Will the underdog pull its greatest upset yet? It’s up to you to decide.
The final vote
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