DELTA, B.C. - The City of Delta has launched a pilot program to make the trip to school safer, working with five elementary schools to hear from families about how students get to and from school and what makes those trips feel safe or unsafe.
The School Neighbourhood Active Travel Plan (SNAP) pilot program, announced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, is working with Cougar Canyon, Heath, Jarvis Traditional, Richardson and South Park elementary schools. For each school, a proposed plan will be developed setting out suggested improvements for the streets around it.
“We look forward to engaging parents, teachers, and students on the SNAP pilot program which will help identify future road safety projects and inform the City’s overall Vision Zero Strategy,” said Steven Lan, the City’s General Manager of Engineering.
Families at the five schools can complete a short survey at letstalk.delta.ca/SNAP until November 20. Parents and school staff can also join a walkabout near their school between November 2 and 20, looking at problem spots together with City staff; anyone interested in joining should contact their school principal. Students will also provide feedback through short, in-class surveys.
The City is delivering the pilot with participation from Fraser Health and the Delta School District. What families share will be reviewed alongside transportation data, collision and safety information, and engineering assessments to develop a proposed plan for each school.
Elementary schools from across Delta are participating, and the five pilot schools were selected to give the program a range of neighbourhood conditions to test. The outcomes of the pilot will be reviewed with Council and the community before the program expands to more Delta schools.
For Surrey readers, the pilot is directly relevant even though it sits across the municipal boundary. Delta borders Surrey, many families cross between the two cities for school and work, and school-zone safety is a shared concern on both sides of the line. Delta’s approach, asking families and students first and testing street improvements at five schools before expanding, is also a model Surrey residents may want to watch as their own city weighs road safety around schools.
The survey deadline matters for families at the five pilot schools: responses close November 20, and walkabouts run November 2 to 20. The announcement does not name a date for the proposed plans themselves, and this article does not guess one.
(Source: City of Delta news release, October 29, 2026)
