🚶🏽‍♀️🚲 How to Participate – Phoenix Edition 🚍🛴

Join Urban Phoenix Project and our partners in reimagining mobility in our city! Whether you walk, roll, ride, or leave the car behind a few times this week, you're helping build a more inclusive, accessible, and people-first transportation system.

✅ What is Week Without Driving?

Week Without Driving is a national campaign that challenges elected officials, planners, and everyday residents to experience our streets the way non-drivers do—whether by choice or necessity. This includes:

• Seniors

• Youth

• People with disabilities

• Low-income residents

• And anyone without access to a car

🚫 The goal isn’t to be perfect. It's to build empathy, spot gaps, and raise your voice for safer, more connected, and more dignified non-driving options in your community.

🛠️ How to Participate

1. Commit to not driving yourself anywhere from Sept 29–Oct 5.

2. Use walking, biking, transit, or carpooling to get around.

3. Share your experience! Each day, we’ll post prompts and challenges on UPP’s social media. Tag us with your reflections, photos, barriers you faced, and wins you experienced.
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4. Join our events and virtual check-ins. Stay tuned for live challenges, story shares, and more!

🧭 Phoenix-Area Transportation Resources

Whether you're new to not driving or already living car-light, here's how to get around in Phoenix and the Valley:

🚌 Transit Options

• Share the Ride – A Matching system to help find you a transit or carpool commute

• Valley Metro Trip Planner – Bus, light rail, and paratransit info

• Download the Valley Metro App – Trip planning, real-time tracking, mobile fare

• Light Rail Map

• Valley Metro Transit Map

🚲 Biking

• Valley Bike Map

• Use Google Maps – Bike Mode to plan low-stress routes

• Look for existing protected bike lanes on 3rd St, 1st Ave, Grand Canal, and more

🛴 Shared Scooters & E-Bikes

• Lime Phoenix Info & Map

• Spin Phoenix Info

• Bird Shared Mobility

👟 Walk & Roll

• Use apps like MapMyWalk or Strava to track and share your journey

• Be aware of high-crash intersections—use high-visibility crosswalks where available

🧠 Can’t Walk or Bike? You Still Count.

If you use a mobility aid, rideshare, paratransit, or rely on others to get around—your story matters deeply. Week Without Driving includes everyone who doesn’t have full access to driving as a daily option.

🗣️ Let’s Build a Phoenix for Everyone—Not Just Drivers.

Your lived experience this week can shape future street designs, crosswalk policies, bus investments, and neighborhood priorities. Let’s use this moment to demand better, safer, more inclusive mobility for everyone.

#WeekWithoutDrivingPHX
#UrbanPhoenixProject
#MobilityJustice
#WalkRollRidePHX