Bus lane statuses updated as of June 2026
Cumulative time bus riders have spent delayed by traffic since July 24th, 2024:
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New bus lanes in Vancouver since July 24th, 2024:
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July 24 marks one year since Vancouver City Council passed a motion to add bus lanes across the city’s most congested corridors. Movement and Vision Zero Vancouver rallied support for the motion, and when it passed, we rejoiced at the news.
So…where are they? What has been going on since this motion passed?
In short, there’s a lot of planning and design underway, but it hasn’t yet resulted in any action. We know bus lanes can be delivered quickly – sometimes in a matter of days – so that’s why we’re keeping the pressure up.
Scroll down to find out about our picnic/rally below!
Every day, transit riders are delayed by 7,000 cumulative hours across these nine priority corridors. Keep reading to see how much time you and your fellow bus riders have spent delayed by traffic on each of the corridors identified in the motion since it passed.
We’ve estimated times based on TransLink’s 2023 BSR Report.
Daily person delay describes the total amount of time bus riders are delayed in a day. So if there are 100 people on a bus, and they’re delayed by 10 minutes, the people on that bus collectively have 1,000 minutes of delay, or almost 17 person-hours of delay! The report shows all those hours added up per day, and the counters we created add up the delay since July 24th, 2024. And yes, across all the corridors in the motion, it really does add up to over 300 years.
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Broadway
Broadway carries the busiest bus route in Canada and the US, with ridership high enough to justify a SkyTrain. However, that line won’t open until late 2027. In the meantime, Broadway still has no dedicated all-day bus lanes. The city recently added some extra hours to the existing bus lanes, but our request to make them all day hasn’t been actioned upon.
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Hastings Street
The city’s plans for Hastings St are disappointing and we encouraged folks to send in letters to ask for better! Ultimately, the city ended up postponing bus lanes on Hastings St and doing even more consultation on the Hastings corridor in 2027.
With the number of buses that go through this corridor on a daily basis, having bus lanes along the corridor would speed up tons of riders’ commutes and improve reliability for SFU Students.
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49th Avenue
If you’ve taken the 49, you know the struggle. Long stretches of slow-moving traffic with frequent stops and packed buses are not fun for anyone. The city is planning to extend bus lanes on 49th Ave in 2026-2027, and it’s long overdue for such a vital corridor with countless schools and destinations along it.
In the meantime, we called upon the famous Langara College graduate, Hudson Williams, to appeal to city council for bus lanes.
Image credit: City of Vancouver
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Main Street / Kingsway
Main St and Kingsway are home to frequent stops, tons of traffic, and some of the slowest bus routes in the city. The city’s plans for the corridor will only speed up trips by a measly 3%, so we asked them to do better.
Unfortunately, even the lacklustre plans for 7 AM–7 PM bus lanes were cut back near Main Street-Science World station, a crucial section where bus routes 3, 8, and 19 all converge.
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Granville Street
Marpole has some of the highest transit ridership in the region. Despite this, the city’s initial plans for bus priority faced major pushback from local businesses. We fought to keep strong bus priority in Marpole, but it was rolled back. Consider sending a follow-up email!
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West 4th Avenue
West 4th Ave had bus stop balancing and right turn pockets completed in 2022, which helped make trips faster, but nothing new has been done since then.
In 2026, staff at the City of Vancouver recommended postponing work on this bus corridor due to reprioritization of resources 🙁
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Downtown to Ironworkers Memorial Bridge
We haven’t seen any plans for the bus corridor between downtown and the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.
In 2026, staff at the City of Vancouver recommended postponing work on this bus corridor due to reprioritization of resources 🙁
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King Edward Avenue
We’ve been keeping an eye out and petitioning for improvements to King Edward Ave and “The Amazing 25“, but there has been nothing announced yet for this corridor. King Edward Ave is prone to construction-related delays, and the 25 is a really long bus route, which makes every minute of delay even more unbearable.
In 2026, staff at the City of Vancouver recommended postponing work on this bus corridor due to reprioritization of resources 🙁
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SE Marine Drive
Frequent riders of the 100 and the 80 will know that those buses are heavily prone to traffic delays along Marine Drive, causing trips to take even longer when it already takes too long to go from one end of South Vancouver to another.
Bus lanes for the 100 and 80 were anticipated in 2026, but have been pushed back with no new public timeline for completion.
We’re really, really looking forward to these bus lanes. They will significantly cut down on the time transit users spend stuck in traffic. They will reduce congestion and vastly improve the lives of Vancouverites everywhere.
Edit: Thanks for coming to the picnic, it was a huge success! Check out the media coverage from the event.
