Vancouver's platform called for more investment in transit and cycling. The city's procurement records show what it's actually contracting for — from streetcar studies to bike-lane construction.
On track
Contracted transit and cycling projects have picked up — averaging $3.5M per year recently versus $1.8M before 2023.
1The story
What we're trackingExpand transit investment and build a safer, more connected network for cyclists and pedestrians.— ABC Vancouver's 2022 campaign platform
In plain terms: we added up every contract the city awarded whose description mentions transit, streetcars, Seabus or bike lanes. Before Mayor Sim took office, that averaged about $1.8 million a year; since then it's averaged about $3.5 million a year. The record is lumpy — big projects like the Beatty Street bike-lane upgrade land in single years — so treat this as a directional signal. Big-ticket transit builds (like the SkyTrain) are funded provincially, so this mainly reflects the city's own local projects.
Green bars are the years after Mayor Sim took office (late 2022).
Sim took office Nov 2022 — compare green years to blue ones.
Recent notable contracts
The largest post-2022 awards matching this theme.
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES - Beatty Street Upgrade –Bike Lanes & Infrastructure Upgrades
2025 · $2.94M
Construction Services - Cambie Bridge 2nd Ave Off Ramp Bicycle Delineator
2024 · $0.18M
3The fine print
How we calculated this
We searched all 6,400+ published city contracts (2013–2025) for descriptions mentioning transit, Seabus, rapid bus, streetcar or bike lanes, and summed their dollar values by award year. We compare the average annual total before Mayor Sim's election in late 2022 against the years after. Note: regional transit infrastructure (SkyTrain, West Coast Express) is TransLink/provincial, so this captures the city's direct transit and cycling spending only — and big projects land in single years, so the series is lumpy.
City of Vancouver open data — Procurement Awards (contracts) · as of 2026-10-21 · Vancouver Promise Tracker — an independent look at whether local leaders deliver on their word.