Live in Washington state? Over 16YO? You're eligible to apply for an e-bike rebate voucher from the WSDOT WE-Bike Program (WE-Bike because WA E-Bikes). You have until April 23, noon, to apply, then random drawing to select recipients. 60% of vouchers go to income-eligible (below 80% median household income for your county). https://ebikeswsdot.aptim.com/
https://wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2025/applications-e-bike-rebates-open-april-9

#WSDOTActive #WABikes #BikeWA #BikeTooter #cycling #EBikes #BikeEverywhere #FamilyBikes #CargoBikes #MoveEquity #BikeEquity

Rereading a post I wrote last year that I really like. Thanks, Mom. Warning: Includes the F word (feminism). https://bikestylelife.com/2024/05/25/bike-life-lessons-learned/

#BikeTooter #cycling #BikeEverywhere #BikeLife #BicyclesChangeLives #feminism #WomenLead #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #Moms #activism #advocacy #transportation #accessibility #SafeRoutesNow

Intercity Transit in Olympia WA is awesome for a number of reasons, including this sign on a seat when we got on this evening to go home after walking downtown for dinner. Transit and civil rights have traveled together a long time.

#BlackLivesMatter #MobilityJustice #OlyWa #Transit #MoveEquity #CivilRights #transportation #IntercityTransit

Heading to Houston Monday for a conference. Stark reminder of whose trips are made easy + fast, whose time is valued: 41-minute driving trip airport to hotel, 2 hours via transit with 1 or 2 required transfers. Hotel is in Galleria area so this isn't a matter of going to rural area.

#transit #transportation #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #TransitTooter #nondriver #Texas #Houston

"People don’t walk in dangerous areas (of which we’ve created infinity of), unless they don’t have better options. And those circumstances would likely preclude them from doing things like buying and carrying special visibility garb." --Angie Schmitt

https://angieschmitt.substack.com/p/the-worst-of-pedestrian-safety-month?triedRedirect=true

#RoadSafety #walking #PedestrianDignity #transportation #infrastructure #VisionZero #PedestrianSafety #CrashNotAccident #DriverNotCar #SafetyOverSpeed #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #AngieSchmitt #poverty

"It is not possible to prioritize everyone.

Every decision has tradeoffs, and it’s clear who those choices prioritize when you consider the comfort, ease, and safety of different users. When it’s faster, easier, safer, and more comfortable to get somewhere by driving, we are prioritizing driving." --Anna Zivarts
https://www.planetizen.com/features/131781-when-prioritizing-all-modes-lie

#SafetyOverSpeed #transportation #infrastructure #CompleteStreets #VisionZero #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #nondrivers #disability #BikeTooter

Integrating Socioeconomic Vulnerability Into Resilient Infrastructure Planning. Combined
spatial analysis, network modeling, and social vulnerability indices to identify critical links, assess impact of potential disruptions on accessibility to essential services.
https://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/news/integrating-socioeconomic-vulnerability-resilient-infrastructure-planning?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ROWlgxppep-grUfX1ufsJSPZuJFaXrEso5qI0FyrKI6zsV2diwdKplxNafM5Ctu3axZouNbLwaTHShS6M3xmx6kBAkg3SXka4vS1Z-0aaiLxKxvU&_hsmi=326102622&utm_content=326102622&utm_source=hs_email

#resilience #ClimateCrisis #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #SES #VulnerablePeople #transportation #infrastructure #EmergencyEvacuation #SocialVulnerability #poverty #disability

Time to comment if you care about people not dying on the street. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-proposes-new-vehicle-safety-standard-protect-pedestrians

#RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths #transportation #CarCulture #PedestrianDignity #pedestrian #walking #walkability #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice

By my friend Anna Zivarts, "Don’t Forget About Non-Drivers in Rural America". Aging population, housing prices, needs of nondrivers all come together in rural America.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/08/23/dont-forget-about-nondrivers-in-rural-america

I highly recommend Anna's book When Driving Is Not an Option https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc.

#BikeTooter #transportation #rural #RuralLife #housing #infrastructure #transit #WeekWithoutDriving #nondrivers #disability #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #AnnaZivarts #DisabilityJustice

USDOT Equity Action Plan webinar 7/25, Request for Information open thru 8/14 to help them in their update to the DOT Equity Action Plan.   

Webinar July 25, 10-11am Pacific on Zoom https://usdot.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_ehFPM7MNSvOxClb5JUztGQ#/registration. Sign language interpreting, captioning (CART services), and Spanish translation services offered during the webinar. 
RFI https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/07/15/2024-15456/department-of-transportation-equity-action-plan-update.
#MoveEquity #DEI #equity #USDOT #transportation #TransportEquity #EJ #EnvironmentalJustice #EquityAction

This should be great! Book talk Aug. 28 with my friend Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option, offered by Jonathon Stalls, author of WALK: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour. I went to a reading and walk audit when Jonathon came to my new hometown of Olympia a while back.

https://www.intrinsicpaths.com/event-details/when-driving-is-not-an-option-book-talk-with-anna-zivarts

#books #reading #AnnaZivarts #JonathonStalls #walking #walkability #accessibility #nondrivers #transportation #infrastructure #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #ADA

@ascentale @meganL To me #CripCycling fits with the spirit of #CripTheVote but I say that as a non-crip wanting to support #OwnVoices. When I did a Twitter #BikeSchool related to this topic Gabrielle Peters chose #WheelsMoveMe to represent the overlap of cycling and assistive devices. http://bikestylespokane.com/2019/12/10/welcome-to-our-twitter-chat-bikeschool-moveequity-wheelsmoveme/

#BikeNite #BikeTooter #disability #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #cycling #accessibility

In hunting for a resource to explain why SpongeBob case is ableist I found a new-to-me resource, Self-Defined. https://selfdefined.app/definitions/spongebob-case/

#accessibility #ableism #ableist #WordsMatter #MoveEquity #SpongeBobCase #writing #DEI #inclusion

Someone created a map of wheelchair-accessible trails on the Olympic Peninsula. What a great resource! https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1wS1RsmgPxYn1Oc4VBcvDkA-y4920W4U&ll=47.909290450917915%2C-123.34453147086255&z=8

If this interests you check out this wonderful event https://www.iansride.com/sea-to-sound. I rode it last year; my daily posts start at http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/08/25/wheeling-sea-to-sound-day-one/.

#trails #RailTrails #wheelchair #disability #accessibility #infrastructure #MobilityJustice #GetOutside #WheelsMoveMe #MoveEquity #WAOutdoors #SeaToSound #OlyPen #BikeOlyPen #OlympicPeninsula

Courtesy of Connecticut DOT, the fabulous Tamika L. Butler, Esq. will be speaking Monday June 17, 1-2pm PDT, on equitable mobility. Awesome opportunity! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equitable-mobility-discussion-with-special-guest-speaker-tamika-l-butler-tickets-923075151627?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

#transportation #equity #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #EquitableMobility

Webinar on Innovations in Accessibility from Ped Bike Info Center June 11, 11am Pacific. https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wzI-sl0QT0Goo6wUAIvstA#/registration
"new, research-based recommendations for making complex intersections, floating boarding islands, separated bicycle lanes at sidewalk level, open plazas, and quick-build sidewalk extensions accessible to pedestrians with vision disabilities."

#accessibility #BikeTooter #walking #transportation #infrastructure #PedestrianDignity #pedestrian #ADA #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice

Accessible Streetscape Survey from Smart Growth America https://t4america.org/2024/04/10/new-survey-accessible-streetscapes-for-the-disability-community/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=122d2a46-849c-4f6e-8cce-1c1b846a04e2

Findings will support development of an Accessible Streetscape Design Guide.

#MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #accessibility #ADA #transportation #engineering #RoadSafety #VisionZero #infrastructure #disability #DisabilityJustice

Observations above are the kinds of things I now cannot avoid recognizing. Side effect of working in transportation and thinking directly every single day about the needs of people who can't or don't drive. The book to give transportation professionals who don't notice these things or don't recognize who benefits and who is burdened by their decisions: https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc.

#transportation #Transit #nondrivers #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #accessibility #AnnaZivarts

Boost/discuss for people who think vehicle tech will take care of safety for them. Kea Wilson's takeaways:
-Systems aren't trained to recognize people who use wheelchairs, other assistive devices, bikes, scooters or motorcycles
-The deadline for compliance got bumped back from 3 to 5 years
-They don't have to be able to stop for pedestrians above 45 mph

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/04/30/four-things-to-know-about-the-historic-automatic-emergency-braking-rule

#RoadSafety #TranspoTech #AV #SafetyOverSpeed #driving #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #BikeTooter #walking #VisionZero

"Noticing who isn't in the room is the first step. Next you can ask, What would it take to change this?" --Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.

https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc

#transportation #planning #UrbanPlanning #Urbanists #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth #PoliSci #sociology #disability #accessibility #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #EBikes #transit #micromobility #BikeTooter #inclusion #equity #CarCulture #nondrivers #WeekWithoutDriving