Whether you’re a community member, a community lead, work for a public agency, an elected official, a national organization, or you’re a business, there are lots of ways to join the movement!

Community Member

Reduce or eliminate driving for a week. This isn’t about perfection, it’s about reflection and sharing your experience how you want to! There are many ways to participate. Here are some ideas:

• Use walking/rolling, transit, biking, rideshare, or carpool instead of driving
• Reflect on how your week went, here are some questions you can start thinking about
  • How did I feel when I tried to not drive?
  • What changes did I experience?
  • How much time did it take to get where I needed to go?
  • What activities became harder or impossible to do?
  • Did I notice a change financially?
  • Did navigating different forms of transportation affect my mood, health, focus, etc.?
  • If I had the power to change things, what is the first thing I would change?
• Journal, post, take pictures of your experience/reflections

Community Lead

Community leads can be anyone who wants to organize Week Without Driving in their community. There are many ways to participate. Here are some ideas:

• Support community members in navigating their Week Without Driving
• Connect why Week Without Driving is important to your community and your work
• Host and coordinate events
• Connect with local media to amplify Week Without Driving
• Ask elected officials to participate
• Partner with other organizations, groups and/or agencies
• Recruit community members to share their experiences
• Collect and amplify stories from community members who want to share their experiences

Public Agency

Agencies participate in Week Without Driving by building public trust, creating a space for reflection and learning and using the lived experience to inform their services, policies and operations. There are many ways to participate. Here are some ideas:

• Encourage public agency staff to participate.
• Publish a short reflection about what you learned, internally and/or externally.
• Join walk/roll and/or bus audits with residents.
• Take bus ride-alongs with residents.
• Participate in Week Without Driving events.

Elected official

Elected officials are invited to participate in Week Without Driving to experience how public systems function for the people they represent. There are many ways to participate. Here are some ideas:

• Commit to reduce or eliminate driving for the week.
• Be transparent about your experience.
• Participate publicly, even if it isn’t perfect. 
• Join any community events near you.
• Meet with involuntary nondrivers year you.
• Reflect on your time, safety, access, schedule, and what barriers you faced.
• Share your reflections on social media, website, newsletter, etc.

Statewide, regional or national organization

Statewide, regional and national organizations create space for local voices and support community-led participation. By supporting through capacity-building, engagement and social media amplification, national organizations connect local insight to broader change. There are many ways to participate. Here are some ideas:

• Encourage staff and chapters to participate in their own ways.
• Provide small grants to support chapters and community leads.
• Elevate local stories from participants through articles/blogs.
• Reach audiences that local groups can’t, such as policymakers, national media, funders, etc.
• Maintaining relationships with partners.

Here are some ideas:

• Use walking/rolling, transit, biking, rideshare, or carpool instead of driving
• Reflect on how your week went, here are some questions you can start thinking about
  • How did I feel when I tried to not drive?
  • What changes did I experience?
  • How much time did it take to get where I needed to go?
  • What activities became harder or impossible to do?
  • Did I notice a change financially?
  • Did navigating different forms of transportation affect my mood, health, focus, etc.?
  • If I had the power to change things, what is the first thing I would change?
• Journal, post, take pictures of your experience/reflections