Five years ago, state legislators prioritized car travel, often overlooking the struggles of nondrivers. In response, a project was initiated to collect stories from over 200 nondrivers, emphasizing their challenges with broken sidewalks, public transportation limitations, and lack of accessibility to essential services. Legislators were accustomed to highway expansion projects that generated construction jobs, neglecting the needs for reliable transit and safe infrastructure. The Week Without Driving was designed to immerse lawmakers in nondrivers' experiences, hoped to shift their perspectives on transportation priorities and address the inadequacies in transit access and infrastructure.
The Week Without Driving initiative aimed to immerse state legislators in the experiences of nondrivers, helping them understand transportation access challenges firsthand.
Over the course of a year, more than 200 stories from nondrivers were collected, illustrating their struggles with inadequate transportation and infrastructure issues.
Transportation was viewed primarily through the lens of car users, leading to billions in highway expansions while ignoring essential public transit and pedestrian infrastructure.
The hope was that by experiencing transportation needs from a nondriver perspective, elected officials would better prioritize reliable transit and safety improvements.
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