Transportation, streets, and public space
65 commitments from 9 parties, grouped by who published them.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 33
- Lower parking rates and ensure parking accessibility on main streets.↗
- Work directly with neighbourhoods to create walkable communities that reduce traffic.↗
- Encourage the transition of commercial trucks in the city to electric vehicles.↗
- Establish policy and incentives to expand public EV charging infrastructure.↗↗
- Simplify Building Code and regulatory requirements to make it easier to add EV charging in existing and new homes.↗
- Reinstate minimum parking requirements for new buildings.↗
- Expand bus service and implement new stops in under-served neighbourhoods to create an accessible city-wide public transit network.↗
- Add small community bus routes to underserved parts of the city.↗
- Work with TransLink to electrify the bus system — both trolleys and battery buses — to reduce noise, GHGs, particulates, and diesel air pollution.↗↗
- Restore neighbourhood-friendly streetcars on selected arterial streets where ridership justifies it, informed by a review of the 2019 City of Vancouver Streetcar Feasibility Study.↗
- Prioritize safe, low-traffic, cost-effective cross-town and connected cycling routes with better signage, lighting, and pavement markings.↗
- Review contentious cycling and road projects — including the Granville Bridge Connector, Stanley Park and Beach Avenue bike lanes, and traffic lane closures — consulting with affected neighbourhoods, businesses, and road users.↗
- Advocate for secure, sheltered bicycle storage at major transit stops, bus loops, and schools.↗
- Address pedestrian-bicycle conflicts on public sidewalks through education and enforcement.↗
- Work with the Park Board to ensure pavement markings regulating bicycles in parks are clearly visible and maintained.↗
- Work with TransLink to deploy more electric buses (battery and trolley), increase service frequency, and expand service so all city areas have convenient pedestrian access to transit.↗
- Work with the School Board to ensure elementary students receive training on rules for cyclists under the Motor Vehicle Act.↗
- Work with neighbourhood groups to encourage residents to keep sidewalks clear of low branches and bushes that obstruct the full width.↗
- Work with BIAs to ensure commercial sidewalks are unobstructed and cleared of leaves, snow, and ice.↗
- Upgrade street and pedestrian lighting where needed.↗
- Improve traffic flow on major arteries to reduce shortcutting through residential neighbourhoods; prohibit non-vehicular traffic on major arteries and bus routes where a defined cycling or rolling route exists nearby.↗
- Consult with neighbourhoods on ways to make residential streets safer (speed limits, roundabouts) and on strategies for better movement of commercial goods.↗
- Not implement road pricing.↗↗
- Not adopt city-wide parking permits as previously proposed by Council.↗↗↗
- Work with TransLink and local communities to build a more equitable transit network serving all city neighbourhoods with cost-effective, appropriately scaled options.↗
- Review access, parking, and stopping areas for tour buses, taxis, and chartered services at popular locations, with input from tourism and hospitality sectors.↗
- Promote cycling routes on the City website.↗
- Repair and widen sidewalks in all neighbourhoods to make walking safer for pedestrians.↗↗
- Improve traffic flow by synchronizing traffic lights and designing roads for better flow, including improved turn lanes, commercial loading areas, and signal prioritization for public transit.↗
- Support the transition to electric vehicles by making it easier to convert existing onsite parking for EV charging, requiring pre-wiring of new parking stalls, and providing on-street and public charging options.↗↗
- Restore minimum parking requirements for new construction to accommodate future parking needs and onsite EV charging.↗
- Work with TransLink to implement service improvements including restoring and electrifying neighbourhood and express bus services cut in recent years, and ensuring affordable fares.↗
- Aim for a level of bus service that puts all residents within a 5-minute walk of a local transit stop.↗
Vote Vancouver 14
- Make every timed crosswalk accessible within 12 months.↗↗
- Work with TransLink and the Province to make transit free for Vancouver youth under 18.↗↗
- Deliver an all-electric passenger ferry program as an additional transportation option.↗
- Review parking meter rates and locations.↗
- Protect short-term and accessible parking around medical facilities and places seniors rely on.↗
- Introduce a prepaid parking pass for people who do not use parking apps.↗
- Improve turnover in short-term parking spaces so more people can find parking.↗
- Repair broken streetlights within 72 hours of reporting.↗↗
- Fix known cycling trouble spots.↗
- Introduce clear safety rules for e-scooters.↗
- Complete the Broadway bike lane and improve connections to routes around it.↗
- Push to extend SkyTrain beyond Arbutus to UBC.↗
- Convert underused Downtown EasyPark space into free seasonal bike valets.↗↗
- Create 10 new pedestrian plazas over four years across Vancouver neighbourhoods.↗
COPE 6
- Present a motion on excessive vehicle headlight glare to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Edmonton in June 2026.↗↗
- Bring a motion to the July 15 Standing Committee to recommit to a Central Waterfront Precinct vision prioritising world-class pedestrian connections and active transit hubs.↗
- Bring forward a motion at Council addressing excessive headlight glare as a pedestrian and road safety measure.↗
- Improve transit accessibility and reliability by adding routes, lowering fares, adding dedicated bus lanes, increasing service levels, reducing bus bunching and overcrowding, and restoring cut routes including routes 17 and 25.↗
- Support active transportation and cycling infrastructure including protected bike lanes and flexible reflective bollards, and amplify advocacy by groups such as Vision Zero and HUB Cycling.↗
- Expand free public transit to youth under 18 as a step toward fully funded, fare-free transit for all.↗
Green Party of Vancouver 3
- Bring a motion to the July 15, 2026 Council meeting to expand existing licensing for small neighbourhood zero-emission vehicles to allow passenger shuttles and guided tours at destinations including Stanley Park, Gastown, and the downtown waterfront.↗↗
- Make it safer and easier to reach major parks by bicycle.↗
- Bring forward a motion to limit micromobility devices and cars to 30 km/h on local roads also used by non-motorized transportation.↗
Vancouver Liberals 3
- Remove all parking meters in front of beaches and community centres across the city within the first year of government.↗
- Make completing the SkyTrain extension to UBC the top transportation priority.↗
- Reduce property taxes by 50% for businesses located near new SkyTrain stations for the duration of construction, and introduce incentives for commercial landlords to lower rent for affected tenants.↗
Lucy Maloney 2
Bright Future Vancouver 1
- Provide 100% free transit for Vancouver residents.↗
TrueBlue Vancouver 1
- Audit underused bike lanes.↗