Cars ruin more than cities, they ruin people and businesses too #CarsRuinCities #CarBrain #SafeStreets

Gutted to hear that Pablo Cheese Tart is closing permanently. nomsmagazine.com/ar-accident-...

British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating after a pedestrian was killed in a crash involving a police vehicle in Surrey, B.C.

NEW/LISTEN! Been REALLY looking forward to this one — my interview with Jason from #NotJustBikes IS LIVE on many podcast platforms plus YouTube! We cover a LOT of really important ground on how to ACTUALLY ACHIEVE BETTER CITIES IN REAL PRACTICE! I’m looking forward to your thoughts and comments!

"A forensic collision analysis found that Veinpel's 2021 Ford F-150's passenger-side pillar created a blind spot capable of obscuring pedestrians of Lynza’s height." These child-killing trucks have no place on our streets. www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/...

We were glad to see council pass important road safety motions from @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to Councilors Maloney and Orr for championing these issues, and to everyone who called and wrote in support - you helped make this happen!

Last December, 82 pedestrians were struck in Vancouver; six people died by car over a three day period this week. There are plenty of proven ways to reduce the risk of injury and death from cars — here's hoping Vancouver takes just one of them!!

Clr Maloney's No Right on Red motion is coming up to council NOW! Will be live-posting here, follow along 🧵 visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather." December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather." I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?

5 people have been killed on the roads in Metro Vancouver in the last week, including a driver, a cyclist, and 3 pedestrians, one of whom was a young child. Each of them had lives, families and friends, aspirations and potential that will not be realized. Each of them could have been me, or you.

🚨The deadline to write in to council and/or sign up to speak on @lucymaloney.bsky.social's No Right on Red motion is TODAY at 5PM! This is a critically important one. Please take a moment out of your day to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

On Surrey's road safety inaction: "Let’s stop the performative grief and start the celebration. Let’s give ourselves a collective pat on the back for achieving exactly what we intended: nothing. We have stared change in the face and bravely stood our ground." www.surreynewsbc.com/openion-the-...

Horrified to learn of another pedestrian killed on Hastings in the DTES. This is the most dangerous stretch of road in the whole province for pedestrians yet the city refuses to do anything other than put up 30km/h signs with no enforcement. Hastings needs a road diet and real traffic calming.

The streetscape where this happened. No sidewalks, the only bit of gravel space beside the road used for more parking (despite massive driveways and garages at each house). This is a half block from a daycare and elementary school.

Devastated to learn that a 9 year old child has been killed by the driver of a van in Surrey. vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/07/s...

2) Clr @lucymaloney.bsky.social has a motion to ban right turns on red at high-conflict and high-danger intersections. Most of the world doesn't allow right on red, and it's one of the biggest dangers to pedestrians. Please read more here: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

Can confirm. This is literally the most aggravating thing about being partially blind. You have to look really hard so a driver doesn't try to "beat" you through the crosswalk. And by beat, I mean kill you with their car.

Emailing council is on my to-do today list

We asked this question and got tons of replies & messages here and on Instagram. The next step is to PLEASE email council with your personal stories. It's the one thing that sometimes genuinely changes their minds. We probably only need to convince 1 vote. visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

West 4th BIA is offering free parking on Sundays for 2hrs. I'm sorry, was there an abundance of empty parking spots? Was THAT the problem keeping ppl away? I bet if you removed all parking on 4th for bus lanes, you'd have more people visit because they won't be stuck in what is usually is traffic.

When I'm walking this is the No. 1 way I almost get hit and as a driver I find this super stressful, super in favour.

"A 2018 pilot project in Washington, D.C. saw dramatic reductions in conflicts, including a 97 per cent decrease in vehicle-to-vehicle conflicts and a 92 per cent drop in failures to yield to pedestrians." 🙌🙌

Right turn on red has created a collective delusion in drivers that they don't need to stop at red lights or stop signs if they're turning right. Prohibiting RTOR at many more intersections is step one, but we're gonna need some enforcement as well

"The City’s own data indicate that conflicts involving right-turning vehicles are among the most common types of pedestrian collisions ... If adopted, these changes would mark one of the most significant intersection-safety reforms in Vancouver in years." dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

We worked with @lucymaloney.bsky.social on a motion coming to council on December 10 to ban right turns on red at high-risk intersections. This is a low-cost, common-sense measure that will save lives. We need your help to tell council this matters! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

As we feared, we are hearing that transportation staff were hit hard by today's layoffs. The loss of expertise and capacity will reverberate for years. In its last year in office, Vancouver council is using scorched earth tactics to derail progress on road safety and lock in the deadly status quo.

$13.4 million. But Ken Sim said we can't afford $10M for active transport lanes on Broadway because "we don't live in la la land."

Crossing the street shouldn't be a gamble on your life. We want to end traffic fatalities in our region, not with shame flags and pedestrian education but with real action and systems change. We need your help to fund our work. Please donate if you can! www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

turning right on red is dangerous for pedestrians. as a driver I have to be extra careful as I spend most of my time observing for incoming traffic before swiveling my head for a brief check on pedestrians before I start to move. careless and/or impatient drivers can easily fail to react in time.

We walk around downtown every day and this is how we almost get run over about once a week. Can’t take my phone out to grab a photo, survival is the only thing in my mind 🥹

Have any of you experienced something like this (or worse) due to dangerous conditions caused by a driver turning right on red? Please send us photos or videos! Reply here, DM us, or send us an email: contact(at) visionzerovancouver .ca

Always very happy to see other cities join the cause!

The results are clear. Painted lanes lead to more cyclists being killed or seriously injured. Cycle tracks (i.e. protected lanes) are much safer and lead to huge increases in cycling. This is data from Vancouver. Our politicians should stop ignoring it.

We could easily do the same in Vancouver.

Bus lanes are being expanded and extended on Main and Kingsway. Great to see some progress on this file!

On the POD: tiny.cc/esnv001 We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social #vanpoli

Make sure you ride your speed-regulated scooter on the road with all of the [we're too chickenshit to regulate] giant pick-up trucks and SUVs. Also, we needed to make ICBC rates cheaper so fuck you if somebody hits you. We're the BC NDP. You're welcome.

With respect, if cities want scooter riders to ride in designated cycle lanes, they need to build them everywhere. Shaming users for choosing the option that keeps them safer, when the alternative is sharing unsafe streets with speeding multi-ton vehicles, is unhelpful at best & harmful at worst.

Three points about E-scooters (& siblings): 🛴🛴🛴 E-mobility devices are here and are not going away; E-mobility devices can improve urban mobility, affordability, & livability; E-mobility devices are a novel safety challenge in our traditional transportation realm. What do we do about this? 🧵

Thanks again to @thewaroncars.bsky.social for an incredible night a couple weeks back in Vancouver, c/o the good people at @visionzerovancouver.ca Was an honour to share a stage with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social

A map of all instances where a driver has hit a pedestrian in Vancouver in the past 5 years. The largest circle on this map (Main & Hastings) represents 37 crashes. Source: ICBC

This was a lot of fun! Check out the photos and come see us on the road. We'll be in Providence, Austin, Houston, Denver, and Boulder in December.

We've posted some photos from our Life After Cars event! :) visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...

Saturday | 10:05 PT We bring you excerpts from an evening with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood. @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Yup, I am in violent agreement with you. Protective equipment and bright lights just to stay alive when cycling or walking is just gaslighting peds and cyclists rather addressing lazy engineering designs.

I still have flashbacks when cycling in certain conditions of a bike crash when a bus side clipped me 18 years ago. The nervous system never forgets those moments of survival #VisionZero @visionzerovancouver.ca

"Personal protective equipment is the least effective layer of protection in the hierarchy of controls – by the time you need it, you’re already in danger." ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...

Over 600 Vancouver residents signed up to speak about the city’s 2026 draft austerity budget, but we still need your voice! Sign our open letter urging council to protect public health, climate resilience, and essential services. Deadline: Sunday EOD.

Great move by Surrey, and we especially like the part about lobbying the Province to lower the default limit so cities don't need to put up a thousand sign posts every time they want to lower limits themselves! surreynowleader.com/2025/11/18/s...

“Automobile industry analysts say that manufacturers are attracted to high profit margins from SUVs: they can make more money from SUVs even tho they make fewer vehicles.” "If ranked among countries, the global fleet of SUVs would be the world's 5th largest emitter of CO2…” We all pay the costs.