Transportation, streets, and public space
197 commitments from 12 parties, grouped by who published them.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 46
- Lower parking rates and ensure parking accessibility on main streets.↗
- Work with TransLink to electrify the bus fleet to reduce noise, GHGs, particulates, and diesel air pollution.↗
- Encourage the transition of commercial trucks in the city to electric vehicles.↗
- Not implement road pricing.↗
- Not adopt city-wide parking permits.↗
- Support EV adoption by requiring minimum onsite parking in new construction to allow expansion of charging infrastructure.↗
- 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.↗
- Retain parking minimums in the Parking Bylaw for new construction to support future electric vehicle charging and provide adequate parking for each development.↗
- Reconsider city support for the UBC SkyTrain extension (UBCx) and related development planning with meaningful public input, and through the Mayors' Council of TransLink, ensure the business case includes all facts and considers alternatives.↗
- Expand bus service and implement new stops in under-served neighbourhoods to create an accessible city-wide public transit network.↗
- Not adopt city-wide punitive parking permits as previously proposed by Council.↗
- Repair broken or lifted sidewalk sections, add sidewalks in underserved areas, and upgrade street and pedestrian lighting to prioritize pedestrian safety.↗
- 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.↗
- Cooperate with fast-growing neighbouring cities and TransLink to strengthen regional transit routes and reduce pressure on the existing road network.↗
- 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.↗
- Review traffic lane closures and removal of street parking for under-used bike and scooter share depots, consulting with local neighbourhoods and businesses.↗
- 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.↗
- Focus on repairing broken or lifted sidewalk sections to improve accessibility for people using walkers or mobility aids, and add sidewalks in underserved areas.↗
- 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.↗
- Require off-street parking in all new construction, with adequate provision for electric vehicle charging.↗
- 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.↗
- Ensure adequate access to gas stations and electric charging, given that the majority of vehicles remain hybrid or gas powered.↗
- 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.↗
- Work with residents in the Hastings-Sunrise area, block by block, to establish alternatives to current traffic obstructions, including more speed bumps, four-way stops, designated pedestrian crossings at key intersections, and rigorous policing of speeding and dangerous driving especially around schools and during rush hours.↗
OneCity Vancouver 44
- Work with TransLink on transit-priority streets so buses run faster and more reliably.↗↗↗
- Build a connected, all-ages-and-abilities walking and cycling network rather than isolated projects.↗↗↗
- Prioritize safe routes to schools, parks, and daily needs in active transportation investment.↗↗↗
- Direct new active transportation investment first to neighbourhoods furthest behind, rather than wherever is politically easiest.↗↗↗
- Publish a public, neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood mobility report card showing where active transportation investment is going and where it is not.↗↗↗
- Explore public ownership of Mobi, Vancouver's bike share system, to protect it from financial instability.↗↗↗
- Build active transportation infrastructure faster and at lower cost per kilometre by using proven quick-build materials, while maintaining safety standards.↗↗↗
- Direct staff to develop a three-year seasonal pilot for the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone over the next three summers.↗↗↗
- Direct staff to identify measures to reduce ongoing costs of security and engineering for the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone.↗↗↗
- Voted in favour of extending the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone operation from 19 July to 5 September.↗
- Work to bring the Park Drive bike lane back if elected to the Park Board.↗↗↗
- Ensure safe walking, rolling, and scooting in every neighbourhood through the Connect Vancouver initiative.↗
- Establish a 'Built for Everyone Standard' ensuring equal access to well-lit spaces and bus shelters across all Vancouver neighbourhoods, from downtown to Kits, South Van, and Boundary Road.↗↗
- Install new, well-lit bus stops across Vancouver.↗↗
- Engage Vancouver-based community and advocacy organisations to develop bus shelter standards that meet residents' needs.↗↗
- Adopt a citywide Transit Signal Priority System to give buses priority at stoplights, and work with TransLink to provide fast, frequent, affordable transit through bus priority corridors across Vancouver.↗↗
- Advocate for expansion of the Get on Board! transit pass program for youth and extend it to low-income transit riders.↗↗
- Work with provincial and federal governments to secure funding to extend the Broadway SkyTrain line to UBC.↗↗
- Reform city parking through a single app, apply a public-purpose standard to surface parking, and review surface lots for conversion to non-market housing, childcare, cultural space, public washrooms, and mobility hubs.↗
- Build a citywide connected and protected active transport network so that no car is needed to travel within the city.↗
- Examine options to preserve Mobi bike-share under public ownership and expand it to more neighbourhoods including South Vancouver, with improved accessibility for more riders.↗↗
- Install lighting on streets, bus stops, parks, and pathways in every neighbourhood to improve nighttime safety.↗
- Prohibit hostile architecture in public spaces and ensure bus stops provide weather protection.↗
- Build a protected, connected walking and cycling network enabling car-free travel across the whole city.↗↗
- Direct initial mobility investments to the areas furthest behind and publish neighbourhood-level mobility data so residents can track where investment is and is not going.↗↗
- Reduce speed limits on busy shopping streets, school and park frontages, and high-injury corridors.↗↗
- Dedicate a Vision Zero Rapid Response Fund to proactively identify and immediately address street safety issues based on historical data and evidence.↗↗
- Expand access to secure charging facilities for active transport and eliminate the sale and rental of uncertified or modified e-bike batteries.↗↗
- Champion an off-peak, leashed dog pilot on SkyTrain and SeaBus with behaviour rules, designated boarding areas, and retained operator discretion, with intention to expand if successful.↗↗↗↗
- Make it easier, cheaper, and faster to hold block parties and create a simple process for temporarily closing streets for children's play.↗
- Update Vancouver's traffic lights and implement public transit signal priority to reduce travel times by approximately 20%.↗
- Use smart signals to reduce pedestrian-vehicle conflicts and install diagonal crosswalks at busy intersections.↗
- Explore how World Cup momentum can translate into an ongoing seasonal or permanent pedestrian zone on Granville Street, and expand pedestrian areas to other streets including Robson Street, Water Street, and Mainland and Hamilton Streets in Yaletown.↗↗↗
- Implement smart signal systems and transit-priority corridors to speed up traffic and transit.↗
- Provide transit fare subsidies for low-income residents and those under 19.↗
- Extend SkyTrain service to UBC.↗
- Save and expand the Mobi bike-share system city-wide.↗
- Build an interconnected walking and cycling network.↗
- Publish community mobility data and prioritise improvements in underserved areas.↗
- Lower speed limits on high-pedestrian and high-collision road segments to reduce casualties.↗
- Establish Vision Zero rapid-response funding to improve dangerous road segments quickly.↗
- Provide safe charging facilities for electric micro-mobility devices and remove high-risk batteries from use.↗
- Ensure all transit stops have shelters.↗
- Advocate for a pilot program allowing leashed pets on public transit during off-peak hours.↗
Green Party of Vancouver 29
- Faster response to litter, illegal dumping, graffiti, and overflowing bins; more receptacles in high-traffic areas; enhanced street cleaning around business districts, transit hubs, parks, and schools.↗
- Stronger enforcement against illegal dumping and chronic offenders; better reporting tools to identify problem areas; work with businesses and property owners to keep public spaces clean.↗
- Expand curb cuts, tactile surfaces, audible crossings, and barrier-free infrastructure across every neighbourhood.↗↗
- Work with City Council and the School Board to build a safe and green active transportation network connecting cycling routes to schools, community centres, parks, transit, and employment areas.↗↗
- Establish and prioritize meaningful targets and funding for upgrading safe pedestrian crossings, expand Leading Pedestrian Intervals and audible crossings, and conduct an ongoing pedestrian safety audit of crosswalks and unsignalized intersections.↗↗
- Expand and continue 30 km/h speed limits on residential streets and select arterials, particularly near parks and schools, with continued education and enforcement.↗
- Dedicate stable funding and infrastructure, including retractable bollards and placemaking elements, to support seasonal and year-round pedestrian zones in partnership with local residents and BIAs.↗↗
- Eliminate time and day restrictions for school zones, add more safe routes to schools, and expand School Streets — car-free zones adjacent to schools for active transportation and play before and after school.↗↗
- Connect safe cycling and rolling routes to the AAA bike route and slowed streets network, with a particular focus on completing the Major Bikeway Network and addressing gaps in South and East Vancouver.↗↗
- Add active transportation lanes to the Broadway corridor while the subway is still under construction.↗↗
- Foster special open-streets events celebrating active transportation and calmed streets to connect neighbourhoods and activate public spaces.↗↗
- Right-size neighbourhood parking by planning for actual demand, decoupling parking from housing costs, enabling paid off-street parkades for residents, and reducing parking requirements near high-frequency transit while replacing some parking with plazas, cycling infrastructure, and green space.↗↗
- Expand shared mobility infrastructure, including public bike share, and ensure new facilities are integrated into communities to support last-mile connections to frequent transit areas.↗↗
- Work with partners to establish a binding timeline for delivering a rapid transit extension to UBC.↗↗↗
- Prioritize bus reliability, speed, and connectivity through transit-priority measures including bulges, bump-outs, and bus priority lanes, and expand late bus service and low-income transit concessions, in partnership with TransLink.↗↗↗
- Select protected left-turn signals, add queue-jump lanes for buses, and implement smart adaptive traffic signal systems to manage congestion.↗↗
- Prioritize targeted upgrades to aging road surfaces, potholes, and pavement markings, and deliver curb-cuts and accessibility with all new and renewed infrastructure.↗↗
- Convert at least 11% of Vancouver streets from car use to community uses including tree canopy, parklets, dog parks, active transportation, food-growing spaces, and green spaces.↗
- Enhance walking, cycling, and rolling infrastructure city-wide, prioritizing equity, safety, and comfort for active transportation, including repairing bike routes, enhancing sidewalks, and adding bulges and curb cuts.↗↗
- Invest in accessible sidewalks, curb cuts, crosswalks, extended crosswalk times, transit connections, bus shelters, lighting, and public spaces to enable safe, independent movement for all.↗↗
- Integrate low-cost smart information and communication technologies into all traffic and safety system renewals, and coordinate project timing using less disruptive repair technologies such as cast-in-place pipes.↗
- Work with TransLink, the TransLink Mayor's Council, and senior governments to expand low-income transit programs and deliver more affordable fares.↗↗
- Expand licensing for small neighbourhood zero-emission passenger shuttles and guided tours at destinations including Stanley Park, Gastown, and the downtown waterfront.↗↗
- Bring forward a motion to limit micromobility devices and cars to 30 km/h on local roads also used by non-motorized transportation.↗↗
- Continue to advocate for a safe active transportation lane on Stanley Park Drive and across city parks.↗
- Support affordable alternatives to car ownership.↗
- Implement Vision Zero through accessible sidewalks, curb cuts, and slower streets.↗
- Convert at least 11% of street space to community use.↗
- Install EV charging infrastructure on lampposts and utility poles across the city.↗
Vancouver Liberals 28
- Remove all parking meters in front of beaches and community centres throughout Vancouver within the first year of government.↗
- Make completing the SkyTrain extension to UBC the top transportation priority.↗↗
- Reform street parking, including eliminating parking fees at beaches and community centres, and reviewing two-hour parking limits.↗
- Support alternative means of transportation and improve project planning to reduce traffic and congestion.↗
- Align with Vision Zero by introducing slow zones at intersections where traffic injuries and fatalities occur most.↗
- Add over 400 km to the All-Ages-and-Abilities cycling network by converting painted bike lanes to protected ones.↗
- Synchronize one-way street traffic lights downtown to improve traffic flow at a speed that enhances safety for pedestrians and cyclists.↗
- Study contraflow bus lanes on Howe and Seymour streets downtown alongside the pedestrianization of Granville Street.↗
- Create and enforce clear safety rules for e-scooters and e-bikes while lowering fees and supporting more providers.↗
- Roll out EV and e-bike charging at City facilities and require it in new development.↗
- Work with TransLink to establish a full-time dedicated bus lane on Hastings Street from Boundary Road to downtown, with transit signal priority and improved traffic controls at problem intersections.↗
- Require every bike lane, bus lane, pedestrian street, and rapid transit project to include a plan for deliveries, including functional loading zones, cargo-bike-width lanes, delivery windows, small last-mile delivery hubs, and keeping heavy trucks off school streets where possible.↗
- Add secure, low-cost bike lockers with e-bike charging at community centres, libraries, shopping streets, and SkyTrain stations, in partnership with TransLink.↗
- Give pedestrians a head start at crosswalks and clear sightlines at the most dangerous intersections, and publish an annual report on where people are hurt or killed and what has been fixed.↗
- Work with the Province to accelerate removal of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, work with the Hogan's Alley Society to rebuild a home for Vancouver's Black community on that block, and work with Chinatown to reconnect and revitalize the neighbourhood.↗
- Launch an immediate repair-and-cleanup blitz for potholes, graffiti, and litter, with results measured and published within the first weeks.↗
- Raise penalties under the City's motor vehicle noise bylaw, fund targeted enforcement where complaints are highest, and press the Province to increase fines for illegal exhaust modifications under the Motor Vehicle Act.↗
- Add accessible public washrooms where they are missing and keep existing ones clean and open.↗
- Explore pedestrianizing portions of Robson and Gastown year-round, repave Gastown's streets, add a permanent street market, and allow more accommodation in the downtown core.↗
- Set public GHG emissions benchmarks for transportation aligned with provincial and federal targets, accelerate EV adoption where possible, and work with Port of Vancouver and YVR to reduce emissions, with annual progress reporting.↗
- Pursue a new regional rapid transit agreement with Surrey that advances SkyTrain to UBC alongside improved rapid transit on King George Boulevard.↗
- Bring SkyTrain to UBC back to the top of the regional agenda by engaging federal and provincial governments, TransLink, municipalities, First Nations, and the university.↗↗
- Work with UBC, Indigenous Peoples and First Nations, the incoming provincial government, TransLink, and other partners to secure funding to extend the SkyTrain Millennium Line from Arbutus Street to UBC.↗↗
- Eliminate parking fees at Vancouver beaches.↗↗
- Coordinate city project planning so that road closures and lane reductions on parallel or nearby major arterials do not occur concurrently.↗
- Support public transit, cycling infrastructure, and pedestrian options as the primary means of reducing road congestion.↗
- Review two-hour parking restrictions across the city to make them work better for residents.↗
- Implement business-friendly parking measures, such as free 15-minute parking in high-throughput areas, where appropriate.↗
COPE 17
- Present an advocacy motion on excessively bright vehicle headlights to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Edmonton in June 2026.↗↗
- Recommit to a vision for a Central Waterfront Precinct that prioritizes world-class pedestrian connections and active transit hubs.↗
- Improve transit accessibility and reliability through more routes, lower fares, more dedicated bus lanes, higher service levels, reduced bus bunching, and restoration of cut routes including the 17 and 25.↗
- Support active transportation and cycling infrastructure including protected bike lanes and flexible reflective bollards, and work with groups like Vision Zero and HUB Cycling to improve safety.↗
- Work toward fully-funded, free-to-ride public transit, beginning by expanding free transit to youth under 18.↗↗↗
- Pilot fare-free bus routes in Vancouver.↗↗
- Provide free transit on election days, holidays, and around major community events.↗↗
- Push to integrate the Compass Card system with micro-mobility as part of a path toward a unified public transit system.↗↗
- Close gaps in the city-wide cycling network and expand protected bike lanes, including a new Broadway bike lane.↗↗
- Improve lighting and safety protocols for transportation corridors in public parks.↗↗
- Provide funding and space for community bike repair and recycling initiatives to improve access to affordable bikes.↗↗
- Continue fighting to bring HandyDart under public control to improve service quality for people with disabilities.↗↗
- Introduce an affordable low-income transit pass for people earning less than $40,000 per year.↗↗
- Reduce speed limits on high-risk streets.↗
- Undertake road upgrades and establish permanent school zones.↗
- Take action to address ultra-bright headlights that increase road risk.↗
- Expand protected left-turn infrastructure, prioritising areas of greatest need.↗
Vote Vancouver 15
- Repair broken streetlights within 72 hours of a report being made.↗↗
- Make every timed crosswalk in Vancouver accessible within 12 months.↗↗
- Ensure sidewalks remain clear, clean, and accessible by building housing for everyone.↗
- Partner with TransLink to provide a free transit pass for all Vancouver residents under 18, launching a pilot program within the first 100 days of taking office, running throughout 2027.↗↗↗
- Launch a seasonal pilot free bike valet program from April 1 to October 31, 2027, using existing underused city-owned EasyPark parking spaces to provide monitored bicycle storage, with publicly reported end-of-season results covering usage, operating costs, location performance, user satisfaction, business impacts, and cycling mode-shift effects.↗↗↗
- Deliver an all-electric passenger ferry service connecting Downtown Vancouver with Bowen Island and the Sunshine Coast.↗↗
- Extend the SkyTrain line to UBC.↗↗
- Address known cycling safety problems in the city, including sightlines, signal timing, turning conflicts, accessibility concerns, and connections to existing bike routes.↗↗
- Enforce more accessible sidewalks by constructing and fixing curb cuts where they do not exist or are not sufficiently accessible.↗
- Set a two-hour maximum in short-term parking areas to improve turnover and manage demand.↗↗
- Protect short-term, affordable, and accessible parking near medical facilities and senior-serving destinations.↗↗
- Introduce a prepaid parking pass for seniors who do not use smartphones, so they can park without requiring a parking app.↗
- Introduce clear safety rules for e-scooters.↗
- Complete the Broadway bike lane and improve connections to surrounding routes.↗↗
- Create 10 new pedestrian plazas across Vancouver neighbourhoods over four years.↗↗
John Jones 5
- Push to fix the pedestrian routes seniors use most, addressing hazards such as cracked sidewalks and icy corners.↗
- Push the City to keep streets and sidewalks safe from unsafe e-bike and e-scooter riding.↗
- Push on Council for modernization of Vancouver's traffic signal system so signals respond to actual traffic conditions rather than fixed schedules, including coordinated progression on major streets, adaptive timing to clear backlogs, and transit signal priority to help buses stay on schedule.↗
- Support safer bus stops, better pedestrian connections, improved accessibility, and practical bus-priority measures on the city-controlled street network, while working with TransLink and the Province on elements outside City jurisdiction.↗
- Push for better road and infrastructure repairs in Sunset.↗
TrueBlue Vancouver 5
- Improve practical accessibility in sidewalks, public buildings, parks, transit connections, and other city services for people with disabilities.↗
- Oppose municipal mobility pricing and congestion taxes, eliminate expansion of paid parking in residential neighbourhoods, and ensure road designs do not deliberately create artificial traffic congestion.↗
- Support transit improvements based on ridership, affordability, and measurable need, and require transparent cost disclosure before supporting major transit projects.↗
- Eliminate paid parking expansion in residential neighbourhoods.↗
- Audit existing bike lane infrastructure to restore traffic flow and protect parking for small businesses, halt removal of core vehicle lanes or parking spaces for underutilised cycling routes on major commercial strips, and maintain safe pedestrian sidewalks.↗↗
Lucy Maloney 2
Annette Reilly 1
- Improve safe walking and cycling routes for children and families.↗