Category: Advocacy
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Latest ABC campaign promise on removing traffic calming will have grave, long-term consequences for road safety
This morning, ABC announced a slew of dangerous campaign promises that will move the city backwards on road safety.
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Vision Zero Vancouver 2026 Voting Guide
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…
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What is the Safe Streets Plan?
We asked every major political party in Vancouver to commit to 10 actions to improve road safety that can be completed within Year One of a new Council term. Here’s what we asked and how each party responded:
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Broadway Closure Week 1 Recap: Concrete Works?!
Just over a week into this new road closure, it seems to be going better than the closure at Broadway and Main. We credit that first and foremost to the existing infrastructure in the area of Broadway and Cambie.
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The Status Quo is Not Enough
Vancouver’s draft 2027-30 Capital Plan is out, and despite a clear desire for action on road safety the plan is…completely status quo.
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ABC Guts Road Safety Plan
Yesterday at Vancouver City Council, Ken Sim’s ABC majority voted to gut the Vision Zero Safe Mobility Plan by rejecting safer speed limits on the city’s most dangerous roads.
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Road Safety Rollbacks at Vancouver Council
What we’ve nicknamed the Rollback Report, this document makes recommendations to stall or cease work on dozens of previously passed Council motions, including several important road safety upgrades, “with the objective of freeing up staff capacity in order to better implement Council’s priorities”.
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The Broadway Detour, and the trouble with construction closures
A short story with a simple lesson: advocacy does, in fact, work.
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Slower speeds coming to a school near you
In May, the City of New Westminster Council approved extending 30km/h school zone hours from 8am-5pm to 7am-10pm. This was awesome; schools are vital community hubs for parents and kids, and are active zones all day, not just during school time. Children are among the most vulnerable road users; according to ICBC, 36% of drivers…
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No Right on Red, More Speed Data Collection: VZV Applauds Council Action
2025-12-11 Yesterday, Vancouver council passed two important road safety motions. The first, from Councilor Lucy Maloney, asks staff to take action to ban right turns on red (RoR) at the following locations: where drivers turn through a bike lane where drivers turn through a leading pedestrian interval (where the pedestrian walk signal turns on before…
