We’ve met with the parties running in the Vancouver municipal election and asked them to endorse our 10 first-year asks. We’ve graded the incumbents on 4 years of council votes. Now, we’ve dug through their platforms, considered their past actions, and are presenting our final, all-in-one-place voting guide.
Although we focus on road safety, we believe it’s a metric for how parties stand on a wide variety of issues. Do they care about climate, public safety, equity, accessibility? Are they able to put evidence-based solutions ahead of ideology? Read on:
OneCity Vancouver
OneCity’s first elected councillor, Christine Boyle, was a true champion of road safety. Her successor, Lucy Maloney, was a Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer and was the best-scoring councilor in our full term road safety report card. This party is led by people who understand the issue and are serious about solutions, and their platform reflects it, with a focus on improving the cycling and pedestrian experience, slower speeds on shopping streets, and post-crash investigations. They’ve definitely earned our vote.
COPE Vancouver
Since being elected in 2025, Sean Orr has been a strong and passionate advocate for road safety, and has worked closely with us across several ideas. COPE’s 2026 platform includes support for a Broadway bike lane, promises to close the gaps in Vancouver’s cycling network, and commits to funding curb cuts and improving pedestrian crossings. COPE’s candidates are very focused on climate justice and transit, both deeply integrated with road safety, and we expect they’ll be excellent here.
Green Party of Vancouver
The Green’s only incumbent and now mayoral candidate Pete Fry is a mixed bag. Two council terms ago he cast the deciding vote against a Commercial Drive bike lane. This term, he led the successful push to reduce speed limits on all residential streets to 30km/h. A promising trajectory? To the Greens’ credit, their 2026 platform is great on road safety. They’ve committed to significant investments in pedestrian safety improvements, Broadway bike lanes, slower speeds on high-pedestrian arterials, a connected AAA bike route, and returning 11% of city road space to the people via plazas, patios, canopies, green space, and active transport routes.
Vote Vancouver
Current mayoral candidate Rebecca Bligh was with ABC for 3 years (and the NPA before that) and had some pretty bad road safety votes. Since becoming an independent, she’s voted on the right side of almost all road safety issues, but has never brought any to council herself; she’s an ally but not a leader. Of the party’s candidates, Rebecca Hasdell seems to hold a genuine interest in road safety and an understanding of the issue from her public health background. Vote Vancouver’s platform is a mixed bag, with positive policies like accessible crosswalk timing, fixing known cycling trouble spots, a free downtown bike valet, completing the Broadway bike lane, and adding new pedestrian plazas. However, they also have multiple policies focused on making parking cheaper and easier, which only serves to lock in car dependency.
Vancouver Liberals
The Liberals endorsed our 10 first-year council asks, and their platform contains some great promises, including building 400km of AAA bike routes, pedestrianizing several streets downtown, and significant transit expansion. Like Vote Vancouver, the Liberals also make some promises about cheaper parking that we don’t love. Mayoral candidate Kareem Allam doesn’t own a car and seems committed to making our streets safer. On the other hand, we have to mention that he worked as Ken Sim’s Campaign Manager then Chief of Staff in 2022, and the party’s slate includes some of the most anti-cyclist politicians Vancouver has seen in recent memory in John Coupar and Tricia Barker. We’re not sure if we can trust their candidates to vote the right way when push comes to shove.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver
To their credit, when we emailed all the parties asking to discuss road safety priorities, TEAM was the first to respond. To their discredit, we weren’t able to align on any policy goals. TEAM’s transportation platform has a lot to say about their vision for all road users. They promise to improve our sidewalks, make residential streets safer with speed limits and roundabouts, and advocate for secure bike storage near transit and schools. But the majority of TEAM’s policies on cycling seem to focus on regulating cyclists and framing them as a problem for both pedestrians and drivers. They go as far as to suggest prohibiting “non-vehicular traffic on major arteries and bus routes when there is a defined cycling / rolling route nearby”. They also pledge to review “contentious projects such as the Granville Bridge Connector, the Stanley Park and Beach Avenue bike lanes, traffic lane closures”. Leave them off your ballot.
ABC Vancouver
It’s hard to overstate the damage ABC has done in 4 years. Tearing out the Stanley Park bike lane, voting against intersection safety cameras, cancelling the planned Broadway active transport lanes, blocking Halloween Safe Streets, trying to tear out the Beach Ave bike lane, rolling back Water Street pedestrianization, passing a budget that halted road safety work, and gutting the City’s new Vision Zero Action Plan – it will take years to undo the damage. Despite claiming to spend big on road and sidewalk repairs, ABC’s 2027-2030 capital plan allocates the lion’s share of transportation money to road renewal, with $0 of the city’s money allocated to building new sidewalks and curb cuts. Their platform is hyper-focused on “public safety” but makes zero mention or road safety. Even the “best” of their candidates have proven themselves to be spineless, and we strongly urge you to exclude them on your ballot.
After reading all that… please don’t forget to go vote! Early voting is Oct 3, 7, 10, and 13; and election day is Oct 17. More info on the City of Vancouver website here. We’ll see you at the polls!
