Biking in the City Mid-Term Report Card
Curious about how our City of Vancouver Council & Park Board politicians are doing with respect to biking? Look no further!
Check out how they're voting on biking relevant motions: what mark we've given them, and what they’re saying about biking in the videos and quotes below. Whether you bike or not, biking improvements enhance safety and mobility for all.
Click on the image of each Councilor or Commissioner below to see select quotes and videos from that person.
Video Highlights
| Party | City Councilor | Impact on biking * | % Attendance at meetings with votes on bike issues * | Select Quotes & Videos * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Party | Pete Fry | A | 100% |  |
| Green Party | Adriane Carr * | A | 100% |  |
| One City | Christine Boyle * | A | 92% |  |
| ABC | Lisa Dominato | C | 100% |  |
| ABC | Sarah Kirby-Yung | C | 58% |  |
| ABC | Lenny Zhou | F | 100% |  |
| ABC | Mike Klassen | F | 100% |  |
| ABC | Peter Meiszner | F | 83% |  |
| ABC | Rebecca Bligh | F | 67% |  |
| ABC | Brian Montague | F | 58% |  |
| ABC | Ken Sim (Mayor) | F | 50% |  |
| Party | Park Commissioner | Impact on biking * | % Attendance at meetings with votes on bike issues * | Select Quotes & Videos * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Tom Digby | A | 100% |  |
| Independent/ formerly ABC * | Scott Jensen | C | 100% |  |
| Independent/ formerly ABC * | Brennan Bastyovanszky | C | 100% |  |
| Independent/ formerly ABC * | Laura Christensen | C | 100% |  |
| ABC | Jas Virdi | F | 83% |  |
| ABC | Angela Haer | F | 67% |  |
| ABC | Marie-Claire Howard | F | 50% |  |
* For more information on items with an asterisk, click here.
The voting records and quotes were compiled from publicly available information from the City of Vancouver website.
To report a missed vote or any errors, please complete this form.
What did our politicians say?
On Council voting to remove AAA Bike Lanes from the Broadway Plan
It’s not going to be more practical to revisit this later. In fact, there will be more encumbrance because nobody’s going to want to rip up Broadway again… we really can have it all. We can have the trees… the patio… the sidewalks. And… the separated active transportation lanes.
— Councillor Pete Fry
… this is about climate action. It’s about healthy city. It’s good for business. We need a complete street, a safe street, AAA active transportation. If we build it, people will come
— Councillor Adriane Carr
On Park Board Removing Stanley Park Bike Lane
… I just want to bring forward that this was our mandate. Our campaign pledge was actually to remove the temporary bike lane…
— Commissioner Jas Virdi
I’ve heard from some of you that this is an ABC campaign pledge that we're implementing tonight. For the clear public record, this motion was not a campaign pledge of the ABC party in the recent municipal election
— Commissioner Tom Digby
Important! Call to Action
Please ask our City Council and Park Board to do better in the last two years of their term. Fire off even a short message noting their record so far and/or issues that are particularly important to you. Contact City Council and Park Board here. Please cc HUB Cycling at action@bikehub.ca. In addition, please get out & vote for a pro-cycling/active transportation candidate in the upcoming by-election on April 5th for Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr's vacated spots on Council.
This report card information was compiled and reviewed by a dedicated group of volunteers from the HUB Vancouver-UBC Local Committee Elections working group and invaluable video and quote volunteers. HUB Cycling would like to thank them for their tireless work on this project!