by Ashley Archibald
(This article originally appeared on Real Change and has been reprinted under an agreement.)
Rebecca Saldaña and her kids had a choice.
It was Wednesday. One of the children had a dance class in Burien. The other had a taekwondo class in the Mt. Baker neighborhood. That’s a lot of back and forth.
Without a car, it was pretty difficult to get to both. Fortunately, the kids took pity on Saldaña. Rather than take the bus from the South End to Burien and back to Mt. Baker, her daughter chose to forgo a dance class.
“We are simplifying our day,” Saldaña said.
Not so simple for an elected official, of course. Saldaña still needed to make it home for a community meeting.
Saldaña, along with more than 100 other elected officials and transportation professionals, participated in a “Week Without Driving,” an event created by the Disability Mobility Initiative (DMI) — a project of Disability Rights Washington — to show the difficulties that non-drivers face in a state and country planned around cars.
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