Category: Blog
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On Cars and Cartels
Over the next two months, Vancouver will welcome 350,000 visitors for the 2026 World Cup, so it’s an ideal time to reflect on what makes a city safe for tourists.
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Broadway Detour Update
We met with city staff to discuss our ongoing concerns about the Broadway detour. Here’s what we learned:
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A road safety advocate goes to the Auto Show
I planned for it to be one part infiltrating enemy territory, one part bridge building. I was hoping to ask some tough questions and lightly make fun of the whole event, but I was also genuinely curious to talk to car enthusiasts about road safety.
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Vision Zero Vancouver re-branding to Vision 294 Vancouver. (April Fools!)
2026-04-01 Today we announce that henceforth, Vision Zero Vancouver will be re-branded as Vision Two-Hundred-Ninety-Four Vancouver. While for years our mission has been to reduce the number of people killed on our roads to zero, we’ve come to realize this is simply too hard. It was a noble (if naive) endeavour that many municipalities in…
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Vision Zero Vancouver advocate hit and injured by driver while returning from road safety meeting
Longtime road safety advocate and Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer Rhiannon Fox was hit and injured by the driver of a Kia Sorento on Friday afternoon. Fox was returning from a City of Vancouver Vision Zero strategy workshop at City Hall, where she was giving feedback on long-term road safety strategy and goals. The crash happened around…
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Vision Zero Vancouver: 2025 Vancouver Council in Review
With year 3 of this council’s term complete, it’s time for our annual report card! See our 2024 and 2023 scores here. As always, we look for every road safety motion that came to council, give it an “impact score” multiplier, and award points based on how each person voted. Rhetoric and intent don’t matter,…
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We Hired Our First Staff Person! And a Look Back at 2025
An exciting announcement from Vision Zero Vancouver to start 2026: we’ve hired our first full time staff person! For those who have interacted with us before, you’ll be very familiar with Margie Sanderson.
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Canada’s Best Commute 2026
In November, CBC ran a contest to find Canada’s Worst Commute. What we learned is that people hate long car commutes, and that transportation systems should be designed to give people safer, faster, cheaper, more convenient alternatives. But we know that it’s not all bad. So Vision Zero Vancouver is launching a friendly competition to…
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Four ways that the Vancouver budget could hurt road safety
The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can’t afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected.
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Main & 7th is the worst intersection in Metro Vancouver
When we set out this summer to find out what was the worst intersection in Metro Vancouver, it was both out of genuine curiosity and to prove a point—that terrifyingly bad infrastructure is all around us, no matter what corner of the region we live in. After six rounds of voting, we still do not…
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