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Proclamation Template

The Week Without Driving PA 2026 Proclamation template is now available here for your organization or municipality’s download and use. Based on feedback received last year, it has been adapted to better reflect experiences and financial realities in the Commonwealth. If you are interested in accessing more detailed reports about household spending on motor vehicles, please reach out to pawalkworks@padowntown.org for assistance. We look forward to this document being adapted and adopted by municipalities across PA!

Press Release Template

The Week Without Driving PA 2026 press release template is available in both short and long versions. They can be adapted for use by your organization or municipality. This is relevant for a variety of entities, not just those who can issue proclamations. The templates leave space for you to insert your organization’s information, quotes from local leaders and local non-drivers, and details about your community/region. Again if you are looking to insert more detailed statistics, you can follow the link in the template doc or email pawalkworks@padowntown.org for assistance.

Elected Official Invite Template

Take this template and adapt it for your own use to invite your elected officials to take part in Week Without Driving, too. The people who have the most direct say in what our transportation networks, services, and policies look like are elected officials. County officials have a major say in local public transportation options. Local officials govern lots of spending questions particularly on sidewalks and the design of streets for all modes, or not. At the state level, state senators and representatives hold the future of transportation — and public transportation — funding in their hands and also control the regulatory framework for vehicles of all sizes, including micromobility.

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Take the Week Without Driving PA Pledge & advocate for better mobility options for non-drivers in Pennsylvania!

Whether we live in suburban towns or city neighborhoods, everyone in Pennsylvania deserves safe, reliable, dignified access to the places we need to go. Across the state, 30% of our friends and neighbors don’t drive a car. The Week Without Driving is a nationwide movement to link the needs of disabled individuals and people of all ages with environmental movements and accessible community planning. Together, we will illustrate challenges and opportunities for non-drivers and call for change that improves mobility for all.

Join us in pledging to take a Week Without Driving PA. You can participate as an individual, organization, or elected official. Find out more and get involved at the Week WIthout Driving PA website: https://weekwithoutdrivingpa.org/

Prompts for Daily Reflections

Here are graphics from the national Week Without Driving campaign. Note that they each include a prompt for reflection for a specific day of the week. There were similar prompts provided last year. This year they are available a month in advance. Feel free to download these, and post them along with a written reflection on that topic. Consider also sending your thoughts and the image to your local, county, state, and federal legislators. Plus see the bottom of the page for our list of homegrown, more concrete daily prompts:

Social Media Posts – post with hashtag #WeekWithoutDrivingPA

• Whether we live in suburbs, rural areas, or cities, everyone in Pennsylvania deserves safe, reliable, dignified access to the places we need to go.
  
  Take the #WeekWithoutDrivingPA pledge & call for change! https://weekwithoutdrivingpa.org/

• 30% of people in Pennsylvania don’t drive a car because of age, disability or income, but still need safe, accessible, affordable ways to get where they need to go.
  
  Take the #WeekWithoutDrivingPA pledge to raise awareness & call for change: https://weekwithoutdrivingpa.org/

Tag @transitpa on X/Twitter, Transit For All PA on Facebook, and @transit4allPA on Instagram with your pictures and posts while taking the challenge

PA #WeekWithoutDriving Coalition — Daily Reflection Prompts

The Pennsylvania contingent also proposes the following daily prompts for reflection. They are somewhat more concrete than those from AmericaWalks. All are good! Feel free to use any or all:

1. Thursday – Can you get yourself to a grocery store without driving? What does that involve? Does your routine have to change because of how much you could carry? Where is that shopping trolley your nan used to have anyway? 
2. Friday – What does dinner and a movie look like if you are not driving? A fun night out or a complicated slog? 
3. Saturday – Time to make a trip to the library. Can you and your book buddy get there without driving? What if you have a very tall stack of books? 
4. Sunday – Know any good hiking or bike trails you like to visit? What would be involved in getting there without driving? 
5. Monday – What would you do if you needed to take some clothes to the dry cleaner without driving? Could you get there? Could you transport a winter coat and two bedspreads using active modes? 
6. Tuesday – How would you go to school or pick up a child from school without driving? Would this just be an easy option, one in fact you might find to be preferable to sitting in interminable car pick-up lines? Or would it be nearly impossible to accomplish safely and in good time? 
7. Wednesday – What are your options for getting to either the dentist or the eye doctor without a car? Would it be possible? Would it lead you to choose a different service provider if you knew you would not be driving? 
8. Thursday – Do you have a story of an epic non-driving journey you wound up making this past week? How did it come about? 

Look for these to be incorporated into the virtual scavenger hunt, too!