Could you spend a week without driving? Maybe that sounds like a challenge, but about a third of Americans don’t drive because of disabilities, age, and the costs of owning and operating a car.

In 2021, Washington disability rights advocate Anna Zivarts started the Week Without Driving challenge. Since then, it’s become a national campaign.

The transit advocacy group Spokane Reimagined is using the week to ask policymakers to put themselves in the shoes of residents who walk, bike or take the bus instead of using cars.

"We're not trying to shame anyone into not driving. We're not trying to force anyone into not driving," Spokane Reimagined Co-Executive Director Erik Lowe said. "It's really an educational campaign, and it's really a matter of showing people what that 30% of the populatio

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