Vancouver’s Green Streets Program encourages streetscape enhancement

Neighbourhood Beautification

The City of Vancouver’s Green Streets Program encourages citizens to beautify their neighbourhoods by adopting and maintaining street gardens in traffic circles and corner bulges.

The program began in 1994 as a pilot project in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. The success of the project inspired other neighbourhoods to get involved and liven up their streets. The Green Streets Program has been blooming ever since.

Street gardeners agree to work with the City and with their communities to help the gardens grow during the year. Some gardeners simply tend the gardens while others choose to add their own personal touch by adding favourite plants to provide colour through the changing seasons.

Green Streets gardens are traffic circles and corner bulges that are constructed and planted by the City as part of an on-going program to slow traffic and increase safety in residential areas or as part of regular Greenway and bike route construction.

Posted December 2009