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Anna Zivarts@nondriver.bsky.social |
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Author, When Driving Isn't An Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Disabled mom with #nystagmus. Launched #WeekWithoutDriving ='https://aann'>nnazivarts.com'>annazivarts.com
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Anna Zivarts
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I'm excited about doing a webinar with the Parking Reform Network tomorrow! I'm focusing tomorrow on how parking reform, transit, and active transportation advocates can be a better ally to disabled community members. Tuesday, 4pm Pacific Time
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K. H. I.
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Good morning! It’s July and @nondriver.bsky.social ‘s book is @islandpress.bsky.social ‘s e-book of the month so you can download it at a discount! islandpress.org/e-book-month
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Anna Zivarts
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In honor of #4thofJuly check out my syndicated column: A Third Of Us Can’t Drive: Freedom For Us Means Ending Car Dependency 👇
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Anna Zivarts
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Why is it so important to have people who actually ride transit on transit boards? Tune in to my webinar with NY Transit Museum July 17 at 2pm ET
www.nytransitmuseum.org/program/driv...
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Anna Zivarts
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One of the highlights of last week, getting to meet Dick. He's got #nystagmus and in his 80 years had never met another person with this condition. He got to talk to me about bike advocacy in Harrisburg & I got to ask all my questions about nystagmus and bifocals!
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Anna Zivarts
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Car dependent communities mean nondrivers can’t access healthcare👇
“Among Gen Z women, the youngest segment in our study, 16% lack access to transportation as do 14% of millennial women.”
www.pymnts.com/healthcare/2...
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Anna Zivarts
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Just found my book on @Bookshare!!! Still working on getting the audio recording produced by the WA Talking Book & Braille Library, but this is a great start to get it shared with the #blind community!
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Anna Zivarts
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Headed out for a bike ride today?
Some thoughts about ableism in the bike community👇
www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/26/o...
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Anna Zivarts
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Take a minute and listen to this clip of Disability Rights WA's Cecelia Black at yesterday's press conference about increasing the size of Seattle's transportation levy to invest in real safety and access👇
youtu.be/ohBMLS33fLQ?...
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K. H. I.
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Must read. @nondriver.bsky.social ‘s letter to her mom www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/26/o...
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Amfleet-Footed Achilles
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Tonight’s NYC talk about
@nondriver.bsky.social’s “When Driving Is Not An Option” was delightful, insightful, and time well spent.
Anna Zivarts is a great voice for the intersection of transit, walking, and rolling design that’s disability aware and inclusive. Thank you :)
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Anna Zivarts
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Taking a moment to appreciate that a central debate in Seattle’s next transportation levy is how many sidewalks the city can practically build in the next eight years. Yes, we’ve got a council focused on sidewalks!
www.theurbanist.org/2024/06/25/s...
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Anna Zivarts
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Best part of this East York walk audit? Seeing this ‘We Are the 99 Percent’ sticker on a crossing at a stop light. Good reminder of who is walking & waiting for buses in this industrial area with little shade or sidewalks.
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Anna Zivarts
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You don’t know how many times I’ve waited at a bus terminal or bus stop with a cranky kid and wished there was a play area…well Rabbit Transit in York, PA has it…and there’s even kid friendly art in the stroller area of the bus!
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Anna Zivarts
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Just heard about SB 1100 from California that would prohibit employers from requiring drivers licenses for jobs where driving isn’t an essential function. Sponsored by Glendale Senator Portantino. Would love to connect to advocates working on this!
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Anna Zivarts
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"Because we have built our transportation system around being able to drive oneself in a car, the prospect of trying to make it for a week without getting behind the wheel feels insurmountable to many of us." Kathy Wine from WVIK Quad Cities on #WeekWithoutDriving
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Anna Zivarts
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I'll be on the East Coast next week at the Pennsylvania Active Transportation Summit and then in NYC for a book talk with Dani Simons and @jessiesinger.bsky.social. 6pm Wednesday night at @transitcenter.bsky.social. RSVP 👇
give.islandpress.org/event/when-d...
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Anna Zivarts
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Catch me in this Talking Headways podcast-a live recording of my SF event at SPUR-where I got to talk about car seats, white flight, anti-bus bias and driving a car up a tree…usa.streetsblog.org/2024/06/20/talking-headways-podcast-when-driving-is-not-an-option
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Anna Zivarts
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Join us now!
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Anna Zivarts
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Today👇
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Anna Zivarts
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Are you an advocate interested in learning more about how build an organizing campaign around the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge? The folks from the National Campaign for Transit Justice will be leading a webinar tomorrow to get you started!
weekwithoutdriving.org/upcoming-eve...
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Anna Zivarts
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Headed to the BC Active Transportation Summit! If you’re in Vancouver, come to our #WeekWithoutDriving panel and our walking/rolling accessibility tour both taking place tomorrow morning! lnkd.in/g3w22VTg
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Anna Zivarts
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I’m doing a webinar Thursday with Sierra Club at 6pm CT to talk about how nondrivers should be part of the flight for climate justice
RSVP
sierraclub.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers
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And this is MOST communities. Very few cities have the robust public transportation infrastructure necessary for most people in them to use it solely.
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Anna Zivarts
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"Nobody enjoys traffic congestion, myself included. But that’s literally the trade-off for focusing on density & people-oriented infrastructure. You cannot continue to make it easy to drive or park a car if you’re trying to plan for people." -Chris Comeau quoted in this excerpt from my book
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K. H. I.
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"This bias against nondrivers is even enshrined in state constitutions. From Washington State to Alabama, constitutional amendments adopted in the last century prohibit gas tax revenue (the main transportation funding source) to go to transit."
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Transit Trekker
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"What if when you wanted to go to the mountains or the beach, you could catch the bus, enjoying the trip with a glass of wine and a good book?" Sign 👏 Me 👏 Up 👏 Also read about why we should count kids when we tally how many of us are nondrivers. 👇👇👇
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Matthew Terrill
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This is excellent.
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Darcy R
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Since I’m living the lifestyle, I’m really looking forward to this new book by @nondriver.bsky.social. Thanks to @thewaroncars.bsky.social for the episode that brought the book to my attention
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Gravel Influencer
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"In places where there’s reliable public transit and car-less spaces, mobility and employment don’t require access to a license and a vehicle." This column is a simple and effective rebuttal to folks who like to claim that investing in alternative transportation infrastructure is not accessible.
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Anna Zivarts
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"If you can’t drive or afford to drive, living in communities that require car mobility is an isolating experience, leaving one dependent on favors from family and friends to get anywhere."
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Anna Zivarts
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Still buzzing from a really touching book event in my hometown (Browsers Books, Oly, WA) last night. Thanks to Veronica Jarvis for cohosting, my mom for baking cookies, for the support from @islandpress.bsky.social and for everyone who came out to share and buy books!
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Anna Zivarts
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Don't miss this webinar tomorrow!
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Anna Zivarts
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I was feeling anxious prepping for this talk in front of my parents & all their friends in the town where I grew up. But my cohost-Thurston Regional Planning's Veronica Jarvis-really helped think through how to reach this audience with concrete steps to make change. Come listen!
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Anna Zivarts
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“Driving, most places in Seattle you can get to in 15 or 20 minutes. Even far places like north to south. But if you’re going to take transit it becomes an hour and a half, two hours."
seattlemedium.com/transportati...
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Anna Zivarts
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Are there *really* that many nondrivers?
I wrote something explaining the data and why, if you care about accessible, inclusive, climate friendly communities, maybe you should embrace how many of us are poorly served by car dependency.
www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...
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Anna Zivarts
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Bay Area: Come to my book talk with The Overhead Wire's Jeff Wood and SPUR's Laura Tolkoff this coming Monday! www.spur.org/events/2024-...
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Anna Zivarts
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NYC: Come to TransitCenter on 6/26 for an event about my new @islandpress.bsky.social book, When Driving Is Not An Option. I'll be joined by the awesome Jessie Singer & Dani Simons!
give.islandpress.org/event/when-d...
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Anna Zivarts
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I'm talking with Kelli Refer of Move Redmond and Abby Griffith of Opal Oregon at 2pm ET today. Use the promo code ACTMAYWEBINAR to register! www.actweb.org/events/when-...
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Anna Zivarts
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"Zivarts’ book is excellent in describing specific problems, and equally good at linking the issues of mobility justice to other struggles. So we learn about the connections between car-dependent transport policies and housing affordability, the inequitable distribution of environmental hazards..."
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Bridget Ware
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Co-sign the above! Anna Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social was also recently a guest on @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast if you prefer to listen.
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Anna Zivarts
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Fixed! DL requirement removed. Please encourage transit riders you know to apply!
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Anna Zivarts
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Really hope this transit agency considers their transit and paratransit service a “timely” way to get around the county…
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/king...
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Carl Ballard
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The only book event I have ever been to where the author made sure people knew the best way to get it from the library.
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K. H. I.
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Really appreciated that Anna talked *with* other folks doing this work, and much less *at* folks at the Town Hall event.
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Nat Henry, DPhil
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"Sustainability goes hand-in-hand with accessibility." I had a great time seeing @nondriver.bsky.social, Barb Chamberlain, and Tanisha Sepúlveda discussing Anna's new book, When Driving Isn't An Option, at Town Hall Seattle last night!
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Anna Zivarts
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(& sorry we sold out of books -- you can order from Island Press and I'll organize another time to sign copies)
islandpress.org/books/when-d...
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Anna Zivarts
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It’s going to take coalitions like this to build the power to insist a change to the status quo.
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Anna Zivarts
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+thanks to Commute Seattle, Disability Rights WA, Empower Movement WA, Front and Centered, Futurewise, Hopelink, National Federation of the Blind of Washington, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, Transit Trekker, Transit Riders Union, Transportation Choices Coalition, & The Urbanist.
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Anna Zivarts
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Thank you to everyone who came out to my book talk last night and for Town Hall Seattle, Barb Chamberlain and Tanisha Sepúlveda for creating space for us to dream about a less car-dependent future.
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