Image: Google Maps / The City of Chilliwack will receive $9,901 from the provincial government to build a rectangular rapid-flashing beacon crosswalk at this intersection of Yale Road and Kipp Avenue, across from Save-On Foods, in downtown Chilliwack. It's a busy pedestrian crosswalk but it doesn't light up during the darker months of the year between October and March. 

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Yale/Kipp getting illuminated crosswalk

Chilliwack to receive funding for illuminated, flashing crosswalk on Yale Rd.

May 30, 2023 | 1:18 PM

CHILLIWACK — A busy pedestrian crosswalk just a few steps from the downtown Save-On-Foods on Yale Road will get some much needed safety improvements thanks to a provincial grant.

The B.C. government announced Tuesday (May 30) the City of Chilliwack will receive $9,901 to install a rectangular rapid-flashing beacon crosswalk at the intersection of Yale Road and Kipp Avenue, across from Save-On Foods.

The location is within the city’s downtown core, not far from the downtown transit exchange, and crosses one of the busiest arterial truck routes in the community.

If the Google Maps picture from October 2020 is any indication, the crosswalk itself could use a fresh coat of paint, although the area was paved in the summer of 2022.

The project grant coincides with funding through Vision Zero grants. More than $1 million in grants has been distributed to 59 B.C. communities this year. Projects include improved crosswalk infrastructure, traffic calming, speed-limit reduction pilot projects, speed-reader boards, improved lighting, road-safety planning and more.

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Organizations receive as much as $20,000 per project. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure provided $600,000. The regional health authorities contributed additional funding to maximize the number of applications funded within communities.

The funding is provided through regional health authorities to local governments, Indigenous communities and governments and non-governmental organizations, such as school districts and road safety advocacy groups, to support them to plan and implement projects that will directly improve the safety of the roads in their communities.