Anna Zivarts

Steven Bird Remembrance this Saturday in Kent with funds raised going to our friends at the Non Drivers Alliance and Tacoma On The Go. Folks working to prevent further tragedies like Steven's, who was killed in a road rage incident. Check it out!

Spokane Reimagined's work during last year's Week Without Driving was featured prominently on both the Washington and National Impact Reports published by Nondrivers Alliance and America Walks.

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I got so excited about your tweet and then realized that everything is out of stock...How do you keep track of when stuff goes on sale in the fall? Is it the same day every year?

Here is the background on Steven's story. Content warning this is a really hard and may not be how you want to start your day.
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It's kid and outside food friendly. I'm planning on breaking some of my favorite transit-related board games: Bus and Rivers Roads and Rails.

It's super accessible via transit and also via the Interurban trail. I'm planning on biking down. if anyone feels like riding together in the afternoon, let me know.

Logan brewing event Saturday 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Friends, tomorrow afternoon I'll be this beer release party in rememberance of Steven Bird at Logan's Brewery in Kent. Come join me & @lauraridesbuses.bsky.social
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I was wondering how folks deal with this we went to the Torrent game in the fall. I was able to move things around and go home/take the bus instead of biking, but it was a hassle.
I'm curious what NYC venues do...as so many people there don't have car storage locker options.

Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway » The Urbanist # Cities must commit to downsizing their highway networks if they intend to meet climate and livability goals and expand housing in a healthy and equitable manner. Seattle must lead the way.

“Only by designing for reduced car capacity can we manifest a reduction in car volume. And only when we design for less car volume can we improve the experience of movement for everyone outside of vehicles.” @nondriver.bsky.social

Community Walk/Roll Events Using Washington State Sidewalk Inventory 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-pers…

Nondrivers Alliance has been partnering with the Taskar Center to host community walk/roll events throughout our state. We have three more coming up in the next six weeks

What It Would Take to Map Every Sidewalk In Your State — Streetsblog USA States and tech companies keep detailed records of virtually every driving lane in America — but not every sidewalk. Until now.

Here's the podcast episode

Are you curious to learn more about statewide sidewalk mapping? You can tune in (remotely) today & tomorrow to learn more about the work featured in @keawilson.bsky.social's recent podcast interview with Dr. Anat Caspi

Let's talk about how easy driving contributes to the death spiral of declining bus ridership/route frequency, highlighted by @seattletransitblog.com here. KC Metro is fighting back with increased route frequencies, but it's still hard to see where we were pre-pandemic vs now

Maintaining this in the bill would balloon King County Metro's projected funding deficit from $1.75 billion to $2.1 billion by 2035.

It would also dig Sound Transit's financial hole even deeper.

Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway » The Urbanist # Cities must commit to downsizing their highway networks if they intend to meet climate and livability goals and expand housing in a healthy and equitable manner. Seattle must lead the way.

NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway

Op-Ed by Anna Zivarts (@nondriver.bsky.social), via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/25/o...

Exactly. And Reconnect South Park is starting to experience the same pushback. We can't have the good things we've worked really hard to build community consensus around if increased congestion can be used as a trump card.

We’ve also, for example, allowed bars to operate in places that are primarily accessible via driving personal vehicles, and that’s 100% a failure of the state. A realignment to “you cannot legally drive after even one drink” is going to shock the service industry…

Here's a piece I wrote explaining my top request coming out of interviews I did for Mayor Wilson's transition -- a clear mayoral directive that ensures that every project that touches our city encourages reduces VMT. Read more 👇

2nd Ave is impossible with the light timing for bikes. Even downhill (southbound) I prefer taking a lane on 2nd or 3rd because the timing for bikes at the lights is so short and you wait so many more cycles than cars to get through downtown.

Followed the new bike lanes up the hill on Elliot, turned right on Bell, left on 2nd Ave.

They are trying to deal with high rates of chronic alcoholism from soviet occupation, drinking culture. We tried to buy a bottle of champaign for New Years at a grocery store at 6:01pm and it was a hard no. No alcohol sales after 6.

I tried to get up there once earlier in the pandemic and couldn't get upstairs. Good reminder to try again. Though Starbucks is a hard sell when Boona Boona coffee is an option.

I'm a little bitter about Isaquah because they have the only 24-hour pharmacy in greater Seattle. (For a the New York City comparison, it would be like having the only open pharmacy in Newburgh).

I love to see that Issaquah wants transit. But what happens to Tacoma, Tukwilla, Graham Street stations where communities aren't so wealthy & white? Do we end up on the chopping block?
Don't see our cities chartering shuttles to get public commentors to transit board mtgs...

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Over 2,000 drunk driver cars seized in Latvia in three years In Latvia, the law allows for the confiscation of drunk drivers' cars for three years. During this time, more than two thousand vehicles have been seized. Some of them end up at auctions, while others...

I keep thinking about drunk driving penalties in Latvia (BA limit .05, .02 for new drivers). As of 2022, if you're caught with a BAC of .15 or refuse a test, your car is confiscated & either auctioned or donated to Ukraine. This new policy has (unsurprisingly) reduced DUIs

Perfect! And good coffee!!

Biked the waterfront from CID to the Seattle Center and it was a lovely way to avoid the 2nd Ave signal timing. It's such a beautiful day, I'd love to be able to work from a coffee shop with water views between the Space Needle & Sodo this pm. Any suggestions, #Seattle? Or are all the views private?

Though I gotta say, a five story screen is kinda a cool idea for a dying office tower/dead mall reinvention

Direct access parking

Nothing says yes please drive to downtown Seattle like "convenient, direct access parking"
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