Vancouver is becoming car-free faster than any US city

A street in
Vancouver.
Streetfilms

From
Portland to
New York, North American cities are exploring how they
can persuade more residents to travel by subway, bus, or bike.

Vancouver might be the continent’s biggest pedestrian and public
transportation success story.

As Citylab
notes, people in Vancouver take half
of all trips by foot, bike, or transit as of
2015. This is considerably more than any US city of
comparable size, including Seattle (21%) and
Philadelphia (27%), according to
a 2015 United Nations report.

Ten percent of Vancouver’s commuters also bike to work (For
comparison, that percentage is
3.4% in Seattle and
2.3% in Philly). I
n the U.S.,
0.6% of workers commute by bike, while 5% use public transit.

In a new short film, the nonprofit
Streetfilms interviewed key planning officials, who
detail how Vancouver became such a success story.

Check it out below: