Portland State College’s Transportation Analysis and Training Heart (TREC) will host Anna Zivarts on Wednesday, April thirtieth. Zivarts is an writer and advocate for nondrivers whose recognized for her e-book, When Driving Is Not an Choice: Steering Away from Automobile Dependency (Island Press, 2024).
Right here’s extra about Zivarts from occasion organizers:
One third of individuals dwelling in the US wouldn’t have a driver’s license. The vast majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, decrease earnings, unhoused, previously incarcerated, undocumented immigrants, children, younger folks, and the aged. They’re additionally largely invisible resulting from a mobility system designed nearly solely for drivers. Zivarts explains how enhancing our transportation system with nondrivers in thoughts will create a greater high quality of life for everybody.
Anna is a low-vision mum or dad, nondriver and writer of When Driving Is Not an Choice: Steering Away from Automobile Dependency(Island Press, 2024). Anna created the #WeekWithoutDriving problem and is enthusiastic about bringing the voices of nondrivers to the planning and policy-making tables. Anna sits on the boards of the League of American Bicyclists, the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium and the Washington State Transportation Innovation Council. She additionally serves as a member of TRB’s Committee on Public Well being and Transportation (AME70) and the Nationwide Getting old and Incapacity Transportation Heart Coordinating Committee.
Zivarts was invited to talk as a part of PSU’s annual Ann Niles Transportation Lecture. This collection has beforehand featured YouTuber Ray “CityNerd” Delahanty, reporter Angie Schmitt, city planner Tamika Butler, for Los Angeles DOT chief Seleta Reynolds, and others. The occasion will happen at Lincoln Recital Corridor on Wednesday, April thirtieth at 5:30 pm. Tickets are free and you’ll study extra right here.
