When people ask us if self-driving cars will make roads safer... maybe?? It's not clear yet. They'll definitely add congestion. But we have existing technologies - like speed limiters - that will DEFINITELY make roads safer and can be implemented today. Let's start with the easy solutions first?

what's it like to have a mayor that cares about their citizens? asking for a friend 😭

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There are serious consequences to what we're being told we want with all these mega-cars and trucks. Research shows children are 8X more likely to die when hit by a modern SUV compared with a sedan.

A little preview of what we saw yesterday at the auto show. While sadly no one would speak with us on camera, we had some great conversations about road and vehicle safety. Excited to share more soon. Shout out to @thewaroncars.bsky.social who inspired us to do this!

While overall crime continues to trend down, traffic fatalities more than tripled year-over-year up to Q3 2025. Remember this come the October municipal election when certain predictable narratives about crime start emerging.

So we got a media pass for the Vancouver International Auto Show (presented by ICBC) this week. What questions should we ask?

Waymo is making a push to come to BC. While the debate on the safety of self-driving cars is interesting, it misses the larger point. Self-driving cars means more total cars on our roads, which means more opportunities for serious crashes - and less space for bus lanes, bike lanes, and people.

After passing at the Transportation Committee on Wednesday, Richmond's proposal for lower speed limits in most residential areas has just passed at Council. Full text citycouncil.richmond.ca/agendafiles/... What's really exciting about this is the anticipated timeline of just 3 months!

We don't take road deaths seriously, not even parking lot deaths. Multiple layers of negligence happened here, and the result is a dead person and $1,150 in fines to a traumatized person. Nothing coming out of this will make roads safer. Nothing.

In BC the only consequence is $1,150 in fines when you kill a human being with the vehicle that you have deliberately modified to be even more of a killing machine than it already inherently is. Outrageous. #BCPoli globalnews.ca/news/1174246...

Telling it like it is is core to our existence at VZV. Thanks for the appreciation. (We hate fundraising but will note that our sassy nature doesn't make us especially popular with funders. We rely almost 100% on individuals to make our budget. Link to support us is www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...)

Tickets for our free event with @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social are more than half gone! Get yours now before it's too late visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/03/19/a...

I have yet to see a single indication Mike Farnworth (Minister of Transportation and Transit) has any desire to improve transportation in BC, but there's no shortage of concrete examples of making things worse.

"The SUV was rear-ended at the intersection and narrowly missed a mother walking with her baby as it drove into the storefront." Lucky this wasn't a worse outcome today. Reminder we have a campaign for bollards in this exact area because this keeps happening: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/01/31/v...

We're glad to hear no one was hurt in this morning's crash at Hornby and Nelson...but we are once again requesting bollards to protect this very busy pedestrian area

@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social is coming to Vancouver! Join us on Monday, April 13th for a free gathering to learn more about their inspiring work (plus plenty of time for hanging out and scheming together after). RSVP to save your spot: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

VZV's Margie Sanderson is going to be a judge for the UBC CAPACity design challenge coming up on Tuesday! The challenge this year is all about redesign of Granville Island...which we've had some things to say about in the past 🧱RSVP to join the audience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fantastic to see this in Norway - a safe speed limit should absolutely be the default, not the special case.

Richmond has a really good initiative to lower speed limits on their residential streets (it could go further but it's a great start!) This will save lives. Our own @margiesanderson.bsky.social spoke at Richmond city council in support today: youtu.be/vGKafDI2k6k

The federal government has a survey out about headlight glare! Great to see momentum building on this. Take 2 mins to let them know what you think:

Tired of being blinded by increasingly high, bright headlights at night? Let Transport Canada know by filling out this survey!

"London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan is considering charging SUV drivers in the capital, after research claimed they created 'intensifying risks across London'. The proposal was published as part of a new Vision Zero action plan" Vancouver next please! And no need to redo the research!

This is the 3rd pedestrian killed by a driver in a parking lot in BC this year. When you see the vehicle, it's never a surprise. www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

The only mapping tool that actually lets you see where serious injuries occur, because none of the government agencies talk to each other. A known issue for decades! Of course, we're missing a few hundred per municipality per year, because we only get the crashes that get news reporting.

Many people have been using our interactive crash map, which plots all crashes leading to serious injuries or fatalities since 2023. We just did a huge revamp of it, and introduced the ability to filter by location, demographic, mode share, and more. Check it out! visionzerovancouver.ca/crash-map/

A tragic update on this crash: vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/03/12/m...

Outdoor meeting season is almost here...but until then, we need meeting space! Do you have a space we might be able to use for occasional meetings or events? We don't have any $$ to offer, but we're a friendly bunch doing important work. DM here or send us an email: [email protected]

SpeedING wasn't a factor, if anything. (Although typically speeding was a factor.)

sometimes a graph speaks for itself

⬇️ reliance on fossil fuels ⬇️ transport-related costs ⬇️ GHG emissions ⬇️ cars on the road ⬇️ car crashes ⬆️ physical activity ⬆️ local connections ⬆️ equity 🤏amount of investment required, which quickly pays for itself in health & climate benefits Time for BC to bring back the e-bike rebate!

We NEED free, accessible, public events and Car Free Days connect many neighbourhoods, community groups, charities, artists, makers, vendors. This would have been such a loss: Thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @seanorr.bsky.social for this motion.

We have a decades-long backlog of installing flashing beacons at intersections. It feels like we care more about overpasses than human beings.

Huge thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social who brought a motion to fund Car Free Day and prevent its cancellation! And kudos to all of council for passing this unanimously. We will see you there! www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Sad to say that despite Councilors @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @ptfry.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social tabling an amendment to save these important road safety motions (and a couple others), the ABC majority voted together to kill them. So much effort undone.

As a short adult (157 cm) most new trucks have hoods over my head. They can’t see me, or most kids under 12.

This photo shows the danger so many mobility scooters face - hoods that are taller than they are. And this car isn't even that large compared to some of the cars on our roads. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/03/09/v...

It feels like a really good time for BC to revive their e-bike rebate visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...

In 2023 Clr Boyle had a motion to reduce the speed on Cornwall to 30km/h. Clr Klassen amended it to 40km/h instead, under the guise of an umbrella of further safety improvements which he bragged about. Now, the city is recommending no further action. All we got was a deadlier speed.

The "Rollback Report": ABC's austerity budget is pausing, terminating, or rolling back several of the road safety wins we (and so many of you) fought so hard to achieve. This is beyond disappointing. visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/03/06/r...

Let's all be like Chris. Send a quick email! It doesn't take long.

Based on Toronto and Montreal numbers adjusted for population, Vancouver bike share could easily double or triple its yearly ridership.

There's a great Motion from @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social coming to Council this Wednesday, March 11th to improve bike share in the region! (full text: council.vancouver.ca/20260311/doc...) As card-carrying bike share enthusiasts, we are excited. Here's how to support: (1/4)

44 tickets in only two hours. Imagine the impact if they spent more than the occasional 2-hour “blitz” on traffic enforcement. Well, they don’t have the resources for that, which is why we need automated enforcement. Everywhere. www.northshoredailypost.com/44-ticketed-...

Big congratulations to the Vancouver Park Board! 🎉 The Kitsilano Beach Connection on the Seaside Greenway just won a 2026 HUB Cycling Infrastructure Improvement Award. Great news for people who bike in Vancouver. 🚲

Several previously passed road safety motions are recommended to be postponed or scaled back at the March 10th Vancouver Council mtg, "with the objective of freeing up staff capacity in order to better implement Council’s priorities" This is what happens when you starve the city budget. (1/5)

I'm so sad--but also frustrated!--by this. I LOVE Car Free Day. It was such a fun way to see what our streets COULD be: full of life, family, community, and local business...not just cars. Something is very, very wrong in Vancouver when such a wildly popular event can't make it work.

"Zero means zero" (car free days)

“Because safe streets don’t happen by accident, if we want less traffic, healthier neighborhoods, and streets that welcome people instead of speeding vehicles, we have to stop treating safety as optional and start treating it as essential infrastructure.”

30 km/h speed limits for minor residential streets are coming to 6 Vancouver areas this year through new signs. This is down from the provincial default of 50 km/h. It'll be introduced to a total of 25 areas over the coming years. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...