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The Bookless Club: Is traffic getting more treacherous?

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13.09.2026

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The Bookless Club: Is traffic getting more treacherous?

Without realizing it, I’ve been compiling a list.

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It’s a list of intersections in Vancouver that present too many hazards. Intersections where you have to have your head on a swivel, yet still you can be taken unaware. Intersections where vehicular manslaughter is an ever-present risk.

Top of my list is the intersection at Howe Street and Pacific Boulevard.

The area has a Fresh Market grocery store, a London Drugs, several coffee shops and restaurants, a school offering postgrad certificates, the Vancouver House condo building with 59 storeys of occupants, tons of bike traffic, and, of course, the beach. You can’t turn south onto Hornby Street, so Howe Street is the first possible right-hand turn off of........

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