Explore innovative urban design and transportation projects along the seawall from Olympic Village to Granville Island with tour guides David Rawsthorne, Lindsay Neufeld and Allan Moors. 

Widely known for recreation, the Vancouver seawall is also a fun, convenient and normal way for many residents to travel through the city. Highlights of this walk include the Olympic village sustainable development as well as recent and planned improvements to accommodate the large number of residents who regularly use the seawall.  The tour will also include a stop at City Studio, an experimentation and innovation hub where City staff, students and community members design and launch projects on the ground.

The South False Creek Seawall contains some of the newest and oldest sections of Vancouver's Seaside Greenway, dating back to 1975.  It has a unique character and carries high numbers of people walking and cycling, especially in the summer months.  

Note: This is a one way tour. Participants can either walk or buy a ticket on the False Creek Ferry to get back to Olympic Village.

Registration: Email Public Programs Coordinator, Alan Kollins: akollins@museumofvancouver.ca

Tour leaders: 

David Rawsthorne is a Senior Transportation Engineer who has been designing roads, from freeways to bike paths, for over 30 years. Since 2001, his work at the City of Vancouver has focused on improving the city’s quality of life by expanding its walking and cycling infrastructure. In recent years, he has planned and designed many parts of Vancouver's growing network of protected bike lanes. Recently, he has been planning upgrades to the Seawall in South False Creek.

Lindsay Neufeld holds an M.A. in Community and Regional Planning and coordinates engagement and promotion in the City of Vancouver’s Transportation Planning Branch. Since 2014, she has led public engagement processes for several active transportation infrastructure projects throughout the city and helped to spread the joy and other benefits of walking and cycling through the implementation of the Active Transportation Promotion and Enabling Plan. 

Allan Moors is a Registered Landscape Architect with 20 plus years of experience in landscape and public realm design in Canada and abroad. Allan has worked as a Public Realm Designer with the City since 2008, with a focus on public realm improvements associated with the many walking and cycling infrastructure projects undertaken by the City in the recent years. Some examples of projects Allan has worked on include Olympic Village Public Realm Design, Carrall Street greenway, Dunsmuir and Hornby bike lanes, the Bute Street public realm improvements and most recently the proposed upgrades to the Seawall in South False Creek.