Who pays for sidewalks, bike lanes and multi-use paths, where the grants went, the safety record for people walking, cycling and driving, and what changed after lanes opened. Every figure comes from public data and links to its source.
Programs run over different periods and count money differently, so the amounts can't be added together. Each covers only part of a project's cost; local governments pay the rest.
BikeBC to 2019/20, then the BC Active Transportation Infrastructure Grants program. 2025/26 is the paused intake (Indigenous communities only).
Sum of announcements by calendar year. The fund doesn't publish provincial totals, so this is a minimum.
Funding available each year to Metro Vancouver's local governments for bikeways and for walking routes to transit.
Every grant in the province's list of funded projects, 2004/05 to 2025/26. Search by community, First Nation, regional district or project.
Grants listed under each recipient's name. Joint applications are listed separately.
BC Coroners Service. Includes everyone who died, whether walking, cycling, riding or in a vehicle.
Crashes reported to ICBC, with or without injuries.
BC Coroners Service rates for all road users and for pedestrians.
Commuters aged 15 to 69 in May. No figures for 2017 to 2020; the line joins 2016 and 2021.
All trips, not only commuting, from the city's yearly survey.
2011 (household survey), 2016 and 2021 (census).
Events that move the same numbers. Some are marked with dashed lines on the charts.
Each dot is a community. Across: share of commuters who cycle to work (2021 census, log scale). Up: yearly cyclist crashes reported to ICBC, 2021–2025, per 1,000 bike commuters (log scale).
Each dot is a municipality of 4,000+ people. Across: provincial grants awarded 2016/17 to 2019/20, per resident. Up: change in the share of commuters who walked or cycled, 2016 to 2021 census, in percentage points.
Average per day by month. The lane trial began in July 2009.
Same counters and months. One car lane was given to bikes in the trial.
The separated lane on Dunsmuir Street opened between these two springs (June 15, 2010). Burrard Bridge already had its lane.
Today's network. Protected lanes are dated by when they were built or last upgraded.
From the city's yearly survey (also shown above), on the same years.
Light-duty vehicles, estimated by the province from insurance records.
Each dot is a municipality of 4,000+ people. Up: light-duty vehicle emissions per resident (tonnes CO₂e).
BC doesn't publish a regular measure of how walking and cycling affect health. What is published: physical activity levels, and the public health case made in the province's strategy.
Figures are copied from official publications and checked against the source documents. Yearly totals of provincial grants are added up from the province's list of funded projects; the federal BC total is added up from federal announcements. Summaries and percentages on this page are calculated from those figures. Data last checked .