What will your week reveal?
Week Without Driving is an educational campaign that focuses on reflection, knowledge and understanding. The challenge provides an opportunity for decision makers and individuals to experience and empathize with the experiences of approximately one-third of Americans who do not drive.
Week Without Driving can also be used as a tool for advocacy. If you are interested in learning more, explore opportunities for collaboration, resource-sharing, and amplifying impact with like-minded advocates and organizations below. Discover how other advocacy groups leverage Week Without Driving to drive meaningful change
Week Without Driving
🚶🏽♀️🚲 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
Commit to not driving yourself anywhere from Sept 29–Oct 5.
Use walking, biking, transit, or carpooling to get around.
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.
→ InstagramJoin 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 you find 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
🚲 Biking
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
👟 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
October 1-8, 2026
Committed Policymakers
Senator Analise OrtizGlendale Councilman Lupe Conchas
Ed Hermes, former Chairman of the City of Phoenix Vision Zero Street Safety Committee, joined “Arizona Horizon” in 2025 to explain more about the challenge itself.
