#moveequity — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm DEVOURING Anna Zivarts' book When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency.
People teaching public policy, transportation planning, public health, social work, sociology, political science, on and on--please assign this book in your classes! + buy copies to give school board, city council, other decision makers.
https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#desc
#transportation #planning #PublicPolicy #PublicHealth #PoliSci #sociology #disability #accessibility #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice

Share to reach transpo professionals and people working for transportation equity. UW Tacoma Rural Equitable and Accessible Transportation (REAT) center study on equity/equity evaluation for shared micromobility programs. https://uwt.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQuHucUunyDvl8q

#micromobility #bikeshare #equity #ActiveTransport #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #ScooterShare #SharedTransport

Tuesday night was a really great night in my career when I won a significant award at an event in Seattle in a room with 800 people. It felt wonderful, and I captured a bit of it here: http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/03/17/a-thrilling-night/.

#transportation #WomenLead #WomenChangingTransport #BikeTooter #walking #walkability #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #WTS #Seattle #PugetSound #WSDOT #WSDOTActive

Starting in about 15 minutes, a talk with women I'm proud to know: Veronica Davis, Tamika Butler, and Melissa Bruntlett "Gender, Mobility, and Racial Identity: The American Diaspora". https://www.linkedin.com/events/episode1-gender-mobility-andrac7161313096265842688/comments/

Teams meeting so get ready now.

#gender #mobility #RacialIdentity #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #equity #justice #SocialJustice #transportation #diaspora #TamikaButler #VeronicaDavis #MelissaBruntlett

What the actual bloody what?! I used the sidewalk on the other side of the road to leave my meeting location today only to discover that that sidewalk also ends abruptly in gravel and bushes with a ledge and no ramp to anywhere. No sign that would have warned me that that sidewalk was going to run out. #accessibility #ADA #transportation #infrastructure #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice

@BarbChamberlain

I hate this so much! Sorry you ran into this kind of obstacle 😔

#accessibility #infrastructure
#MoveEquity #MobilityJustice
#ADA #walking #walkability

I just walked along a long stretch of beautiful new sidewalk from a bus stop and encountered this. Shel Silverstein's book is always true-- Where the Sidewalk Ends. He just didn't complete it with the subtitle "With no Advance Warning Far Enough Ahead that You Could Have Crossed at the Roundabout by the Bus Stop to the Side with the Complete Sidewalk and Curb Ramps."

#accessibility #infrastructure #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #ADA #walking #walkability #PROWAG

Haven't been on my bike recently for good reason. Thank you kind strangers, thank you transit. http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/01/27/thank-heavens-for-kind-strangers-and-transit/

#BikeTooter #transit #TransitTooter #walking #WalkTooter #disability #aging #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #kindness #KindnessMatters #OlyWA #OlympiaWA #Olympia #RideTransit #RideTheBus

Transportation folk, you'll want to read When Driving Is Not an Option by my nondriving bicycling friend Anna Zivarts when it comes out in May https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option. She founded #WeekWithoutDriving (now nationwide in the US).

#nondrivers #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #accessibility #BikeTooter #cycling #EBikes #disability #DisabilityJustice #transportation #driving #infrastructure #BicyclesChangeLives #bikes

@haselbach You'll want to read When Driving Is Not an Option by my nondriving bicycling friend Anna Zivarts when it comes out in May https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option. She founded #WeekWithoutDriving and it's now going nationwide in the US.
#nondrivers #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #accessibility #BikeTooter #cycling #EBikes #disability #DisabilityJustice #transportation

Some of my blog posts that seem most appropriate for today:
http://bikestylespokane.com/2016/11/19/personal-privilege-and-biking-it-takes-more-than-a-bike-lane-to-start-riding-2016-update/

http://bikestylespokane.com/2020/01/20/street-of-dreams-can-we-live-the-martin-luther-king-jr-way/

http://bikestylespokane.com/2018/11/10/give-your-power-to-truth-what-story-are-you-writing-for-your-life/

http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/06/19/riding-thoughts-privilege-is-a-tailwind/

https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2016/12/showing-up.html

https://wabikes.org/index.php/2014/09/15/inclusion/

#privilege #BlackLivesMatter #EndWhiteSilence #MLK #DrMartinLutherKingJr #MLKDay #transportation #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #poem #inclusion #DEI

FHWA just posted ADA Transition Plan and Inventory Map. Your state info should be on here: https://highways.dot.gov/civil-rights/programs/ada/ada-transition-plan-and-inventory-map #MoveEquity #accessibility #MobilityJustice #transportation #infrastructure #ADA #FHWA #AASHTOAM

Just ran across a piece I wrote last year that feels worth sharing again.

http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/06/19/riding-thoughts-privilege-is-a-tailwind/

#BikeTooter #privilege #cycling #Tailwinds #AntiRacism #AntiRacist #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #ArrestedMobility

Join our team in the WSDOT Active Transportation Division! Principal Complete Streets Statewide Planner; deadline Nov. 1. Work with Celeste Gilman, named a 2023 Complete Streets Changemaker by National Complete Streets Coalition. https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/wsdot/jobs/4243670/principal-complete-streets-statewide-planner-tps5

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/2023-complete-streets-changemakers/#:~:text=Celeste%20Gilman%20has%20led%20the,the%20Move%20Ahead%20Washington%20package.

#WSDOTActive #CompleteStreets #PeopleStreets #transportation #planning #PlanningJobs #TranspoJobs #UrbanPlanning #MobilityJustice #MoveEquity #EnvironmentalJustice #EJ #equity #RoadSafety #VisionZero

THIS IS IT! Closes tonight 9/28 11:59pm PT. Communications pro wanted for WSDOT Active Transportation Division.
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/wsdot/jobs/4209632/active-transportation-communications-lead-cc5

#WSDOT #WSDOTActive #TranspoJobs #CommsJobs #CommunicationJobs #communications #PR #CompleteStreets #RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed #VisionZero #accessibility #ADA #cycling #walking #EJ #EnvironmentalJustice #MobilityJustice #BikeTooter #walkability #BicyclesChangeLives #MoveEquity #BikeNite

My team at WSDOT is excited to announce that we’re seeking our first ever Active Transportation Communication Lead! Senior-level position will join my management team.
Apply by Sept. 28, 2023.
ATD is a fabulous team doing award-winning work. Join us!
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/wsdot/jobs/4209632/active-transportation-communications-lead-cc5
#transportation #TransportationJobs #ActiveTransportation #EnvironmentalJustice #CompleteStreets #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #walking #cycling #accessibility #Communications #CommunicationsJobs #RoadSafety #WSDOTActive

Accessibility Guidelines for Pedestrian Facilities in the Public Right-of-Way webinar Oct. 5 https://www.accessibilityonline.org/ao/session/?id=111079. #WSDOTActive #MoveEquity #MobilityJustice #transportation #PROWAG #accessibility #WheelsMoveMe #ADA #PedestrianDignity #pedestrian #infrastructure

Appreciate boosts to reach great candidates. Come work with @WSDOT Active Transportation Division! TWO openings: GIS/Data Systems Specialist – TPS4 https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/wsdot/jobs/4111128/active-transportation-gis-and-data-systems-specialist-tps4 (closes 7/26) and Senior Connecting Communities Planner – TPS5 https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/washington/wsdot/jobs/4107117/senior-connecting-communities-planner-tps5 (closes 7/17) #WSDOTactive #MoveEquity #planning #GIS #transportation #ActiveTransport #EnvironmentalJustice #UrbanPlanning #RoadSafety #DataAnalysis #TransportJobs #CommunityEngagement #bilingual