The City of Chilliwack is making dedicated investments in traffic calming in projects throughout the city. The goals of these projects include:
- Using low cost, scalable techniques to deliver rapid road safety improvements.
- Piloting progressive road safety techniques prior to permanent installations.
- Expanding data collection and evaluation techniques to better understand traffic behaviour and collision mitigation methods.
- Increasing public support and understanding of road safety initiatives.
This Vision Zero grant will fund three projects in Chilliwack. These projects are part of a wider set of similar initiatives across the City scheduled to take place in 2026.
Chilliwack is a community of over 100,000 people with several semi-rural town centres and neighbouring Indigenous communities. Unfortunately, the city continues to experience traffic fatalities. As one way to address this, last year, the City established dedicated annual funding for traffic calming projects. The 2026-2027 fiscal year will be the first year in which this funding is allocated under this program.
In response to community safety concerns, the City is advancing traffic calming and pedestrian safety improvements across Chilliwack. This Vision Zero grant will be used to improve safety at three locations:
- On Crescent Drive in north Chilliwack, residents have raised concerns about speeding and shortcutting traffic near Bernard Elementary and a large playground, where sidewalks are largely absent. The City is installing a pilot pathway using precast concrete curbs to improve school access and reduce vehicle speeds by narrowing the roadway.
- At the Yale Road and Nevin Road intersection, where students regularly travel, the City plans to reconfigure the pedestrian crossing to shorten crossing distances and to slow turning vehicles.
- Similar intersection narrowing measures are proposed at Tyson Road and Cumberland Avenue in Sardis to address pedestrian safety concerns near a middle school.
