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Anna Zivarts

Anna Zivarts is a visually impaired/low vision parent and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Zivarts launched the Week Without Driving to bring attention to the needs of nondrivers and is launching the Nondriver Alliance to build transit-rider power across Washington State.

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Week Without Driving

Zivarts: How ‘Week Without Driving’ Is Having An Impact

Needing to drive in a car-dependent society is not some sort of moral failure. A one-week teach-in can help elected officials see that.

August 5, 2025

Promoted Archives Car Dependence

Car Harms Monday: ‘Car Brain’ is the Demon Spawn of Car Dependency

Our policies, our budgets and our cultural narratives assume everyone can and does drive. That's car brain.

May 12, 2025

Best of 2024: Rural America Has Non-Drivers, Too

This year, let's set a resolution to do right by the countless U.S. residents who live outside of cities without cars.

December 31, 2024

autonomous vehicles

I Tried to Hate-Ride a Waymo. Turns Out, I Loved It

And therein lies the problem with the autonomous vehicle revolution.

November 20, 2024

Opinion: Could You Go a Week Without Driving? (Yes — And Here’s Why You Should)

May 25, 2023