Category: Blog
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When it comes to road safety, our leaders’ actions have consequences
For a party obsessed with “public safety”, ABC’s infrastructure decisions are proving deadly. On March 14, at 3am in the morning, a driver lost control of his car on Stanley Park drive and crashed into a tree. The driver suffered life-threatening injuries. His 18-year-old passenger was killed. When ABC came to power in 2022, one…
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Vision Zero Vancouver: 2024 Vancouver Council in Review
It’s been 2 years since the current Vancouver City Council was elected so we’re going to see how their 2024 went! (See our Year 1 report card and our scoring criteria here.) In 2023, there were 2 motions we were especially excited about – Broadway active transport lanes and intersection safety cameras – and both…
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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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A cyclist was killed by a driver in East Vancouver. Why it happened, and why it’ll happen again if nothing changes.
April 18, 2024 On April 17 2024, a cyclist was killed by the driver of a Dodge Ram pickup truck in East Vancouver. People will use the word “accident” but this didn’t need to happen. A long list of policy failures got us here. FAILURE 1. The lack of protected east-west cycling infrastructure across the…
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Grab a Brick!
We appreciated the positive, widespread response to the pedestrian brick campaign! The campaign resulted from a combination of two sources of inspiration: a) The ‘Brick in the Rain social experiment‘ by the Treeman Youtube channel in Hong Kong, who filmed a subject getting splashed at street corners by drivers passing through puddles. They then wanted…
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Vision Zero Vancouver: 2023 Vancouver Council in Review
The first full year of Vancouver’s new council is in the books and we take a look back on all the transportation safety-related motions that came to council in 2023. We’ve given each vote a “Vision Zero Impact” score and given points to councilors based on their decisions. These scores are simply based on votes.…
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Anti-Bike City
One Quick Update; Two Preventable Crashes; Three Things You Can Do One Quick Update Hasting Street continues to be the epicentre of driver violence in our city. On March 27, three people were sent to the hospital after being hit by an Uber driver. Police said speed wasn’t a factor, but look at that windshield.…
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60 in a 30 Zone?
IN THE NEWS CityNews: “Group calls on changes to Hastings Street, dubbed Vancouver’s ‘most dangerous area for pedestrians’” Reporter Angela Bower spoke with Vision Zero’s Mihai & Michelle about dangerous speeding in the Downtown Eastside. What’s going on? What can be done? Street design! As Mihai told City News, “6 wide lanes make it look…
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