To slash car use, look to Vancouver?

Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>To slash car use, look to Vancouver?</h1>
                <h2><p>Canada's largest West Coast city has cut its car use to half of all trips, according to Planetizen. Most of the change is due to land use policies and improvements for transit riders, pedestrians and bicyclists -- with the biggest recent gains in the number of bike trips.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Canada's largest West Coast city has cut its car use to half of all trips, <a href="http://www.planetizen.com/node/77377/well-done-vancouver-well-done-planners?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">according to Planetizen</a>. Most of the change is due to land use policies and improvements for transit riders, pedestrians and bicyclists -- with the biggest recent gains in the number of bike trips. A couple of payoffs beyond the environmental ones: one of the lowest traffic death rates in North America and the least household spending on transportation for any Canadian or U.S. city where data is available.</p>
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Canada's largest West Coast city has cut its car use to half of all trips, according to Planetizen. Most of the change is due to land use policies and improvements for transit riders, pedestrians and bicyclists -- with the biggest recent gains in the number of bike trips. A couple of payoffs beyond the environmental ones: one of the lowest traffic death rates in North America and the least household spending on transportation for any Canadian or U.S. city where data is available.

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By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi