B.C. Place stadium in downtown Vancouver is set to host seven games<\/a> as part of the continent-wide competition, and the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Amphitheatre will host a fan festival<\/a> for the duration of the event.<\/p>\n As part of a number of changes mandated by its hosting agreement with FIFA \u2014 which include everything from temporary surveillance cameras<\/a> to extended noise allowances<\/a> \u2014 city staff said allowing FIFA vehicles to use bus lanes would reduce pressure on other lanes.<\/p>\n “This change is expected to result in limited impacts to current users, as the number of FIFA-accredited vehicles is relatively small and the designation is temporary,” staff say in the report.<\/p>\n A number of streets around B.C. Place and the PNE will be closed or restricted<\/a> for the duration of the event, with the city’s host committee saying<\/a> more details on road impacts will be shared closer to the World Cup itself.<\/p>\n Among the changes is a closure for a stretch of Pacific Boulevard, between the Canada Line’s Yaletown-Roundhouse station and the Expo Line’s Main Street-Science World station.<\/p>\n (City of Vancouver)<\/p>\n Denis Agar, the executive director of transit advocacy organization Movement, told CBC News that allowing FIFA-accredited vehicles to use bus lanes demonstrated how valuable they are.<\/p>\n “During the Olympics in 2010, the city put a huge network of temporary Olympic lanes across the city. This time we’re just repurposing the few bus lanes that we already have,” he said.<\/p>\n “I think this really shows that we need more lanes, as opposed to just splitting the ones we have across more and more vehicles.”<\/p>\n FIFA vehicles will be allowed to use special-use lanes, like those used by RapidBuses, for the duration of the World Cup. (Ben Nelms\/CBC)<\/p>\n Agar said he’s interested to see the city’s plans for Hastings Street specifically, which is the arterial road that connects downtown Vancouver to Hastings Park where the PNE Amphitheatre is.<\/p>\n He says the city should create a convenient way for fans to get to and from Hastings Park, especially with the potential addition of FIFA vehicles in bus lanes.<\/p>\n “If it’s not competitive, if it’s not fast enough, everyone’s going to hop into an Uber and Hastings is going to be a parking lot,” Agar argued.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s transit authority, said that it was comfortable sharing bus lanes with dedicated FIFA vehicles.<\/p>\n “This motion does not change where customers should board buses,” they wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n “TransLink is planning to share more on FIFA-related service plans next week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA-accredited vehicles will be allowed to travel in Vancouver’s bus lanes for over a month when the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[199550,49,48,199548,3274,199551,55,16085,199549],"class_list":["post-498409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-bus-lanes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-downtown-vancouver","tag-fifa","tag-pne","tag-vancouver","tag-vehicles","tag-world-cup-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"This](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c91d44188dbbcdbd4dde0579a47665cf.jpeg\"\/)
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