As of 2015, half of all trips within Vancouver’s city limits are taken on foot, bike, or transit—a goal the city had hoped to reach by 2020. Vancouver’s “active transit” success is the subject of a new short documentary by STREETFILMS.
It all began back in the late 1960s, says the city’s former chief planner (and urban-Twitter celeb) Brent Toderian, when residents rejected a proposed highway that would have torn up the dense urban core and separated it from its famous waterfront. Vancouver is still the only major North American city without a freeway running through it.