The War on Cars: When Driving Is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts

The United States has built a transportation system centered around automobiles. But one-third of the nation’s population can’t drive, whether because of disability, age, financial hardship, immigration status, or any of a host of other factors. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why Anna Letitia Zivarts, herself a low-vision nondriver and a longtime activist for better transportation choices, has written a new book titled When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press). We talked with Anna about how, by designing our transportation future for those who can’t or don’t feel comfortable driving, we could build a system that works better for everyone and that would be more equitable, safer, and more environmentally sustainable. *** . *** This episode was sponsored by . Listen to the episode for the latest discount code. LINKS: Buy Anna Zivarts’s book, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency, at  or from your local bookseller. You can . Buy t-shirts, stickers, hats and more in . It's Bike Month so . Find us on , , , and . Leave us a review on . It helps people find us! This episode was recorded by Josh Wilcox at the . It was edited by Ali Lemer. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.