July 4, 2025
RED FM News Desk
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Vancouver City Council is set to debate a staff report next week that explores the possibility of reducing the speed limit on residential side streets without center lines from the default 50 kilometers per hour to 30 kilometers per hour. However, one city councilor is pushing for an even more extensive approach to road safety.
Vancouver Councillor Lucy Maloney is advocating for a complete overhaul of the city’s “Moving Towards Zero Safety Action Plan,” a program established in 2016 to reduce motor vehicle injuries and deaths. Maloney plans to table a motion next week titled “Developing a Vision Zero Road Safety Policy and Action Plan.” This motion envisions “shifting the city’s existing approach to road safety by taking evidence-based action to achieve its target of zero motor vehicle deaths and serious injuries.”
The OneCity Vancouver councilor argues that it’s time for an evidence-based approach to road safety. “Road violence injures thousands of people every year, and for the last decade, it has claimed at least 10 lives annually,” Maloney stated. “I reject the idea that this is inevitable or acceptable. Zero deaths and injuries on our streets is an ambitious goal, and it is a goal we can achieve.” She added, “We know what works to make our roads safe for everyone who uses them. We just need to do it.”
Maloney wants city staff to apply an “evidence-based lens” to existing road safety measures. She believes that if an investment in road safety doesn’t demonstrably lead to measurable safety outcomes, those resources should be reallocated to interventions that are proven to improve safety.
Both Maloney’s motion and the staff report on speed limits are scheduled to be presented to City Council on July 9.
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