It would be so great to have an un-driver’s license – I want one!

Source: La Presse (francais)

It all started with a car accident. “I decided not to replace it because I was afraid. I thought my life would never be the same, but I realized that I didn’t know the bus network,” she recounts.

Mme Field joined an organization in her neighborhood, Sustainable Ballard. One thing led to another, and she became the head of the Undriver License project. As of today, more than 3,600 members have received an undriver license. At different levels, they are committed to leave aside the car for alternative modes of transport.

The 52-year-old woman explains that she changed her habits slowly. “I began for example by looking at the labels and I realized that I was eating crackers that came from England.”

Julia Field is not an eccentric granola or an extreme militant. No more than the president of Sustainable Ballard, Jenny Heins. “In Seattle, it’s part of the culture. It’s the people who go around in Hummers who are the strange ones. There are a lot of groups like ours,” she stresses.