Tag: community safety

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Vancouver’s slow journey to slow speeds for side streets.

City of Vancouver road sign advising 30 km/h speed limit

Tomorrow, the City of Vancouver appears set to approve new by-laws for 30km/h limit on local residential streets. Nearly six years since this — one of my first motions — passed at City Council and UBCM; again unanimously when I brought it back in 2024; building on work of local/global Vision Zero active transportation advocates.

If this motion passes (and I believe it will) it will mean that all residential streets (without a centre line) across Vancouver will be slowed to impact-survivable speeds. The challenge will remain around signage as it related to enforcement . While the by-law changes speeds city-wide, enforcement and likelihood of charges will be predicated by zones and streets that are clearly marked. Nevertheless the law as it is written means residential side streets city-wide are slowed.

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The Aftermath of April 26 – Healing will take time, thoughtfulness, and intention.

Hand written messages of hope and sympathy posted on a board alongside flowers against school field fence on East 43rd Avenue.

CONTENT WARNING Talking about the event that unfolded after the Lapu Lapu Festival on April 26, when a deranged motorist murdered at least eleven people with his SUV.

How do we collectively recover, how do we individually recover? Two weeks later I’m here walking with survivors from that night, neighbours living within a block of the site at East 43rd between St George and Fraser where Kai-Ji Adam Lo deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people. We are walking slowly, the mom’s leg is in a brace from where the SUV struck her. She was separated from her son when they were hit, he was thrown and concussed. The dad shared his terror running from home to the scene to find his family. They all survived.

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Local State of Emergency Declared in Vancouver

Emergency Operations team (led by City Manager, Deputy City Manager and our Fire Chief) powers to react more swiftly to issues as we need to keep our city safe: ie shutting down unsafe situations, thwarting hoarding and price gouging, procuring emergency supplies and even temporary expropriations.