Burnaby Local Committee
Are you interested in advocating for safe cycling infrastructure in Burnaby? The Burnaby Local Committee is one of HUB Cycling's 10 Local Committees working to make cycling safer and more attractive for everyone through advocacy.
Our local advocacy work is led by committees of local residents—like you! Do you want to help create better bike infrastructure in Burnaby, with the support of our membership base backing you?
Join the committee or attend the next meeting to find out how you can help make biking better in Burnaby!
All are welcome - no experience required!!
To get regular updates as well as meeting announcements, agendas, and meeting links, join the Burnaby mailing list via groups.io.
When you join a Local Committee, you get the chance to:
- Work directly with municipal staff, elected officials and community organization
- Help solve local road and sidewalk problems and learn how they affect local communities
- Build leadership skills and grow your confidence in advocacy and teamwork
- Expand your network by connecting with new people who share your passion
- Help improve the livability and safety of neighborhoods
Local Committees take action through:
- Writing letters to decision-makers
- Providing feedback on future transportation projects
- Meeting with politicians, planners, and engineers
- Organizing rides to assess cycling conditions
- Hosting community events and building local alliances
- Local Committees are the backbone of HUB Cycling’s advocacy, and the work they do has already led to major improvements across the region.
Get involved, build your skills, and help shape a safer, more bike-friendly future for your community.
2024 Burnaby Committee Highlights include:
- Assessing bike infrastructure in Burnaby including producing and submitting three detailed reports and seven letters/emails to city staff and city council directly influencing key bikeway upgrades.
- Hosting four social rides
- Celebrating the following infrastructure upgrades in Burnaby for 2024 including:
- Traffic calming measures in the Edmonds Town Centre and an upgrade to the bike network in the area, including two separated bike lanes (Southpoint Dr. and 18th Ave).
- Paving a section of the Central Valley Greenway (CVG)
- Construction on Gilmore Ave included a short section of new Multi Use Path (MUP) filling a critical gap.
- Removal of two slip lanes at Gilmore & Lougheed and Gilmore & Dawson
- New MUP on Alpha Avenue.
COMMITTEE INFORMATION
Co-chairs: Arseni and Sebastian
E-mail: burnaby@bikehub.ca
Subscribe to the groups.io mailing list to recieve agenda and meeting announcements
Visit the Burnaby Local Committee Wiki for agendas and meeting minutes
Discord server: Join the Burnaby Local Committee's Discord Server to join the discussion!
MEETING INFORMATION
Meetings are currently being held virtually.
Monthly on 2nd Tuesday, 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: Online via Google Meet.
Email burnaby@bikehub.ca to join the next meeting
MEETING CALENDAR
Get Involved!
We are always looking for more people to join the committee, add their voices to the conversation, and help make cycling better in Burnaby. Join the next meeting and get involved!
The committee is looking to fill the following positions:
- Assessment Ride Leader
- Events Coordinator
- Community Liaison
Please see the Committee Roles and Responsibilities document to see descriptions of roles. Send an email to burnaby@bikehub.ca if you would like to help and take one of these roles!
Join our mailing list on groups.io to get updates, meeting announcements, and meeting links. Everyone is welcome, no experience in advocacy or active transportation is required!
You can also join the committee's Discord server and join in on the conversation!
2025 Action Plan
Objective One: Continue Strong Assessment Ride Report and Feedback Precedence
Benefits:
By maintaining our strong precedence we can continue to assess infrastructure and provide feedback to relevant parties. Keeping our audience and our desired outcome in mind can keep feedback size and complexity in check. Saving us time from creating a larger and unwieldy ride report that may be unnecessary. Attending open houses after assessing smaller changes provides opportunities to exchange ideas directly with decision makers.
Objective Two: Continue Good Working Relationship with Collaborators
Benefits:
Maintains and fosters current positive outlook and perception of the Burnaby Local Committee.
Objective Three: Establish and Maintain Perpetual List of Priorities
Benefits:
Provides more structure and direction to our actions.
2022 Municipal Election Survey
Burnaby Survey Results
| Party/Affiliation | Candidate | Do you think that your city's elected officials are doing enough to address transportation needs of future generations in light of the climate crisis & increases in transportation costs? | Will you work to ensure that everyone in your city has equitable access to safe cycling infrastructure? | Will you vote in favour of infrastructure projects that separate bicycles from cars and pedestrians in areas of high cycling potential? | The budget for bike infrastructure should... | Will you be a champion for active transportation on council? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnaby Citizens Association | ||||||
| Burnaby Green Party | ||||||
| One Burnaby | ||||||
| Independent | ||||||
| Alison Gu | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Sav Dhaliwal | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Pietro Calendino | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| James Wang | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Daniel Tetrault | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Antara Deb | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Reah Arora | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Maita Santiago | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Carrie McLaren | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Jasmine Nicholsfigueiredo | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Tara Shushtarian | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Mario Miceli | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Richard N. Liu | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Martin Kendell | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Heymann Yip | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Deborah Skerry | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Scott Van Denham | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes | |
| Konstantine Roccas | No | Yes | Yes | Increase | Yes |
View candidates' long-form answers here.
Candidates that have endorsed our Cycling Platform
Reah Arora, Bill Brassington (SB), Pietro Calendino*, Peter Cech (SB), Antara Deb, Sav Dhaliwal*, Alison Gu, Larry Hayes (SB), Martin Kendell, Richard Liu, Carrie McLaren, Jen Mezei (SB), Jasmine Nicholsfigueiredo, Maita Santiago, Mikelle Sasakamoose (SB), Kristin Schnider (SB), Tara Shushtarian, Deborah Skerry*, Daniel Tetrault, Scott Van Denham, James Wang*, Gary Wong (SB), Heymann Yip*
Incumbents underlined
*endorsement with reservations
(SB) - School Board Candidate
Cycling Maps
City of Burnaby and TransLink have created maps of the cycling networks in Burnaby to help all cyclists navigate safely and comfortably on their bikes. These maps are updated regularly to provide current information on cycling and show the comfort levels of each route based on how separated it is from traffic. PDF versions of the maps for Burnaby are available at the links below. Cycling maps for other Metro Vancouver municipalities are available at bikehub.ca/maps.
- TransLink Burnaby and New Westminster Map (PDF, Updated 2025)
- City of Burnaby Cycling Map (PDF, Updated 2023)
- City of Burnaby Cycling Resources
Cycling 'Hot Spots' in Burnaby
As part of HUB's State of Cycling project, BikeMaps.org produced a series of maps highlighting conflict areas for cyclists across Metro Vancouver.
See the map for 'hot spots' in Burnaby. Please note that these maps show conflicts, but don't account for ridership levels. You can log conflicts/crashes and near misses on BikeMaps.org.
Help improve cycling infrastructure and close 'gaps' by getting involved with HUB's work in your area.
Special thanks to BikeMaps.org for all their help and assistance in producing these maps.