Category: Advocacy
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Vision Zero Vancouver applauds council for bold action on traffic safety
July 9, 2025 – Vision Zero Vancouver is celebrating a major win for public safety after Vancouver City Council voted today to develop a comprehensive Vision Zero Road Safety Policy and Action Plan aimed at eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries citywide. “This could be a real turning point,” said Rhiannon Fox, a spokesperson for…
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Have you seen our stickers around town?
If you’ve been walking around the Lower Mainland over the past couple years, chances are you’ve seen one of our yellow “crash number” stickers on a telephone pole. Have you wondered where we get the numbers?
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Vision Zero Vancouver Endorses Lucy Maloney for City Council
Vision Zero Vancouver is proud to endorse Lucy Maloney (OneCity Vancouver) for Vancouver City Council. Even before joining Vision Zero Vancouver as a volunteer, Lucy has been an unwavering advocate for safer streets, sustainable transportation, and policies that make our city safer for everyone to get around. Her deep commitment to Vision Zero—an approach to…
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The Results: 2024 Provincial Election Platform Report Card
We have looked at all of the platforms of the major parties and scored them using our 2024 Provincial Election Platform Report Card. How did the parties fare? There was a focus on transit (yay Vote Better Transport BC – Transportation is an election issue!!!!!), with the NDP and Greens tying for #1 and getting…
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Vancouver City Council Unanimously Supports Bus Lanes Throughout Vancouver
We are delighted that Vancouver City Council unanimously approved the motion to add bus lanes to TransLink’s priority routes and request automatic enforcement today! The motion, brought forward by Councilor Christine Boyle, builds off the excellent motion spearheaded by Councilor Sarah Kirby-Yung last year, which committed to speed and priority improvements on 5 routes (Kingsway,…
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Vancouver City Council unanimously passes additional pedestrian safety measures
This past week saw some long awaited good news on active transport infrastructure in Vancouver. On 29 May Vancouver City Council unanimously voted to direct staff to identify and then allocate additional funds and capacity to accelerate the installation of pedestrian safety measures across the city, particularly around schools, community centres, and parks. They directed…
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Vancouver City Council Unanimously Supports 30 km/h in Residential Areas!
April 11, 2024 Vision Zero Vancouver congratulates Vancouver City Council on unanimously voting in favour of Green Councillor Pete Fry’s Motion “Revisit and Refresh Vancouver’s Commitment to Safer Slower Streets”. Safety is not partisan and Vancouverites can be proud that the motion was supported by all three parties: ABC Vancouver, the Vancouver Green Party and…
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VZV made a case for safety for keeping Burnaby BRT route on Hastings Street
… reducing deaths and injuries won’t magically happen on its own. It will require a deviation from the deadly status quo. You’ll need to design people-first streets and prioritize transit over personal vehicles. Translink is planning a bus rapid transit (BRT) service connecting the North Shore to Metrotown. A proposed route change would divert the…
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Vancouver Follows Victoria by Calling for More Intersection Safety Cameras but ABC Still Not Serious About Safety
Today the City of Vancouver followed the lead of the City of Victoria by calling on the Province to expand its successful Intersection Safety Camera program, by passing the motion “Creating Safer Streets for People of All Ages with Intersection Safety Cameras.” Vision Zero Vancouver applauds the move and calls on the Province to swiftly…
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Cornwall Ave. speed limit reduced after driver crashed into girl
Twenty-seven people per year are killed or injured in car crashes on Cornwall Avenue, Vancouver, including last summer’s horrific crash that critically injured a five-year-old girl. Vision Zero Vancouver helped draft a city council motion introduced by Councilor Boyle to reduce the speed limit along this street to 30km/h. Although council adopted the motion, the new speed…
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