Calgary’s roads becoming more unsafe, report says
Posted Jun 9, 2026 8:48 am.
An annual mobility report is shedding light on how dangerous of a year 2025 was on Calgary’s roads, as a city councillor is motioning for millions of dollars to improve the situation.
The report comes after a woman died after being struck by a driver in the area of Bow Trail and 37 Street SW on Friday, the latest of Calgary’s pedestrian collisions.
While a specific cause for the collision hasn’t been given yet, it comes as Calgary continues to see indicators show its roadways are becoming more dangerous.
Corbin Bond passes by the area on his way to work and says motorists are always in a hurry.
“They won’t wait for me to cross. I’m hustling, I’m not running, but I’m hustling, and they’ll either cross in front of you, or there are those that pass you when you walk by,” he told CityNews.
In its annual safer mobility plan report slated for the Community Development Committee on Wednesday, the city says 2025 saw an overall increase in fatal and major injury collisions compared to 2024.
Pedestrians and cyclists saw increases in both major injury and fatal collisions, while motorcyclists saw a decline in the former category, but an uptick in the latter.
Calgary Police say 2026 has already seen 12 fatalities on roads, with six of them involving pedestrians. Officers say a majority of those pedestrians were killed at crosswalks.
“My advice to the drivers out there today is when you start looking left to see if it’s clear for you to turn right, it might well have been by the time you have looked left, but when you go to turn right, that could have changed,” said Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward with the Calgary Police Service’s traffic unit.
“Certainly, I think that may have happened on Friday afternoon.”
The city says some of the reasons behind the uptick include aggressive driving, Calgary’s population boom, and policies such as the reduction of the province’s graduated licensing system and lax vehicle impound laws compared to other provinces.
Despite this, the city says areas of Calgary where engineering improvements have been made, collisions have gone down by 20 to 90 per cent, depending on the treatment used.
However, Ward 8 Councillor Nathaniel Schmidt is bringing a notice of motion to Tuesday’s Executive Committee, looking to spend up to $6 million in one-time funding of surplus money for safety improvements in every ward. It also calls for administration to study the equivalent of net parking enforcement revenue to help with the city’s safer mobility plan.
“Not only could we put up more rapid-flashing beacons, but different types of traffic calming infrastructure, bump-outs, crosswalk improvements, signage improvements,” he said.
“If we can stop deaths that are preventable, that’s what we should be doing.”
The executive committee is slated to meet Tuesday.
