E-scooters in Vancouver: Lime’s stations, BC rules and fines, the seawall, SkyTrain and YVR

Which e-scooter app works in Vancouver, and what does it cost?

Only one: Lime. The City made it its exclusive operator in 2024. You rent in the Lime app, and Lime says you can also book one through the Uber app.

• Prices. Lime publishes no Vancouver fares outside its app, which shows the price before you unlock. It also sells minute passes and an annual pass.
• Lime Access and cards. For riders who qualify, the City lists 2,000 annual memberships with no unlock fee and $0.15 a minute. Without a credit card you can pay with a prepaid card, at the same price, Lime says.
• Age. Lime requires riders to be 18, older than the Province’s minimum of 16.

All prices on this page are in Canadian dollars. New to shared scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter.

Around 10:25 am on 17 October 2026 the map of Vancouver showed about 1,190 Lime scooters: a snapshot, not the fleet. Our map doesn’t show e-bikes or the City’s Mobi bike share, and can’t unlock a scooter.

How Vancouver’s Lime stations work

Vancouver’s system has no free-floating parking: you must start and end every ride at a Lime station. The City aims to place one every two to three blocks, on sites open 24 hours a day. If a station is full, the app sends you to the nearest one with space, so check before you set off.

Vancouver joined the Province’s e-scooter pilot in July 2021, for private scooters only. After a tender that drew five bidders, Bird among them, the City signed with Lime in July 2024: five years at no cost to the City, which may extend the deal by up to three five-year terms. The scooters arrived in stages:

• 12 September 2024: 100 scooters in Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland.
• 11 June 2025: the downtown peninsula, West End included, with 525 scooters and 98 stations in all.
• 17 October 2026: Lime’s open data listed 245 stations, from Trafalgar Street in Kitsilano east to Boundary Road and south to about 47th Avenue on the east side. There were none at UBC or Jericho Beach, and none on the west side south of about 10th Avenue.

We found no published fleet cap. Lime’s own figures counted 1,170 scooters in service in May 2026.

E-scooter rules in Vancouver and BC in 2026

BC’s Electric Kick Scooter Pilot Project Regulation sets most rules; Vancouver’s Street and Traffic By-law and the Park Board add where you may ride, and Lime sets its own age limit and zones.

Fines. BC sets them and the Vancouver Police Department issues them. Breaking a pilot rule, such as riding on the sidewalk, carrying a passenger or riding under 16, costs a $109 ticket, or $84 if you pay within 30 days. Riding without a helmet is a $29 ticket. Prosecuted in court, an offence can bring a fine of up to $2,000 under BC’s Offence Act, and the Province says your scooter can be impounded.

Wear the helmet. In a campaign from 4 September to 4 October 2026, the VPD gave out about 1,300 warnings and tickets by 2 October: 920 for helmets, at least 181 for riding on the sidewalk and 84 for carrying a passenger.

Coming from Alberta? On a shared scooter in Calgary or Edmonton a helmet is optional; in BC it’s the law, and Lime fixes one to every scooter.

Where you can ride: streets, the seawall and Stanley Park

The City’s list: all city streets, on the roadway; all greenways, bikeways and bike lanes; and the seawall and park paths where bikes are allowed. Slow down on busy shared paths, keep to the bike side and yield to people walking.

• The seawall. The Seaside Greenway runs 28 km from Spanish Banks through False Creek and around Stanley Park to Coal Harbour. E-bikes and e-scooters were barred from the False Creek seawall from the early 2000s until April 2024. In 2024 the City planned a Lime slow zone along the whole seawall: check the app for the zones in force.
• Stanley Park. Around the park the seawall is a one-way, counterclockwise loop of 10 km. Lime had no station in the park on 17 October 2026, so you pay for the whole loop and end in the West End, at Morton Street and Denman Street by English Bay, for instance.
• Granville Island. One Lime station stands on West Anderson Street, near the Public Market.
• No-ride zones. Lime marks them red in the app: the scooter stops, and you walk it out.

Can you ride your own e-scooter in Vancouver?

Yes. Vancouver takes part in BC’s pilot, which runs until 5 April 2028; its results will decide whether e-scooters are allowed for good. The rules in the table apply, and the scooter itself must:

• be ridden standing, with no seat, and carry one person;
• not be able to go faster than 25 km/h, with a motor of 500 W at most;
• weigh 45 kg or less;
• have brakes, a bell or horn, and lights for night riding.

Hoverboards, Segways and one-wheels don’t count, and the VPD says e-skateboards aren’t street legal. The pilot covers only the towns that joined: 40 on the Province’s list in September 2026, including Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam, both North Vancouvers, West Vancouver, Kelowna and Victoria. Surrey, New Westminster and Delta weren’t on it, so you may not ride on their public roads.

SkyTrain, SeaBus, YVR and riding through winter

On transit. TransLink lets you take a folding e-scooter, folded, on buses, SkyTrain (Canada Line included), the SeaBus and the West Coast Express, at the operator’s discretion; seated e-scooters aren’t allowed. A Lime ride must end at a station, so end it before you board. Lime has stations near most SkyTrain stops in its area, but none on the Canada Line south of Broadway–City Hall.

YVR airport. The airport sits on Sea Island in Richmond, outside Lime’s Vancouver area. Take the Canada Line, which reaches downtown in under 30 minutes; trips leaving YVR pay a $5 AddFare on top of the fare.

Season and night. Lime runs all year: its riders took 78,874 trips in December 2025, with about 810 scooters in service. We found no night ban.

No scooter nearby? Mobi by Rogers, the City’s bike share, rents e-bikes at $2.00 to unlock and $0.39 a minute, plus tax.

Richmond, North Vancouver, Burnaby and Kelowna

Lime’s Vancouver area doesn’t join up with its other towns: a Vancouver scooter stops working when you leave the city, Lime says.

• Richmond, Coquitlam and Port Moody: Lime runs e-scooters and e-bikes in central Richmond, where it started in May 2022, and in Coquitlam’s City Centre and Port Moody, whose areas join up. We found no open data for these towns, so they’re missing from our map.
• Burnaby: Lime e-bikes only, since 25 June 2026. In May 2026 the city banned e-scooters from major roads without a separated bike lane or path alongside, and from parks not designated for them.
• North Vancouver and West Vancouver: no shared scooters. Lime ran the North Shore’s e-bike share until 30 June 2025, when BCAA’s Evolve took over. Private scooters are allowed, and folding ones ride the SeaBus.
• Kelowna: Lime is the only operator; about 750 scooters were on the Kelowna map at the same moment. You may not ride in City Park or along the downtown waterfront, or downtown after 10:30 pm.

Did you know?

• Vancouver was Lime’s first system with locking stations, Daily Hive reported in October 2026.
• The busiest station in May 2026 was Morton Street and Denman Street at English Bay, where 7,095 rides began.
• During the 2026 FIFA World Cup riders took just over 498,000 Lime trips, more than 172,000 of them starting in or near BC Place.
• Most rides are short: 97% of Lime trips in December 2025 lasted 30 minutes or less, Lime’s data shows.