The Nondrivers Alliance is partnering with Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the University of Washington to recruit and train pedestrian connectivity champions through a series of in-person walk/roll events focussed on transit access.
In communities throughout the state, we are organizing in-person walk/roll mapping and training events as a way to bring together and build connections between local disabled transit users, community organizations that work with transit-reliant community members, transit agency staff, and local public works staff.
Through this hands-on training, participants learn about why pedestrian access and connectivity matter, especially for disabled community members and nondrivers and get to experience navigating the local streetscape in a group of individuals with diverse access needs. Participants also learn about the advocacy that led to the Washington State sidewalk inventory, how that connects to efforts to understand transit access, and how planners and community members can use tools developed by the Taskar Center to access this data set, including AccessMap and Aviv Scout Route.
Event schedule:
- Clark County, 1/20/26
- Pierce County 1/29/26
- Skagit County 2/23/26
- Columbia County 3/25/26
- Snohomish County 3/26/26
- Whatcom County 4/4/2026
The Nondrivers Alliance is a grassroots transit rider community space that is supporting transit rider advocacy and the national Week Without Driving campaign. This project is led by Anna Zivarts, a visually impaired parent and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Joining the team at Disability Rights Washington in 2018, Zivarts launched the transportation access for everyone storymap and advocacy project which connected 300 nondrivers from across Washington state and created the Week Without Driving.