'Dude, where’s our lanes?': Transit advocates call out Vancouver’s bus lane delay

A year after Vancouver city council pledged to fast-track new bus lanes on its busiest routes, not a single corridor has been completed.

In July 2024, the council voted unanimously to work with TransLink on nine priority corridors — including Southeast Marine Drive, Broadway, Hastings Street and Main Street/Kingsway — with a commitment to complete at least two per year starting in 2025.

The plan was pitched as a way to ease traffic congestion, improve transit reliability and cut emissions.

“Crucial bus routes in Vancouver are getting slower, increasing operating costs and diverting resources away from addressing crowding despite Vancouver being more reliant on buses than almost any other city in Canada or the U.S.,” according to the council motion.

But transit advocates from Movement s