Dispatches from Book Tour
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind as we hit the road (not in a car) to promote our new book, Life After Cars, in some of the greatest cities of North America including San Francisco, Washington, DC, Seattle, Vancouver, BC, Nanaimo, BC, Portland, OR, San Diego, and Los Angeles (as well as our home base of NYC, of course). Getting to visit all these cities in person, often walking and riding the streets accompanied by local advocates and elected officials, was a real joy and a privilege. We saw a lot! And maybe not surprisingly for a couple of podcasters, we had some thoughts about all of it—from excellent bike lanes and public spaces to transit service that left a lot to be desired and the horror that is Interstate 5.
Our tour continues! Find out where we'll be next at lifeaftercars.com.
Our upcoming schedule:
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Thanks to Cleverhood for sponsoring this episode. Listen to this episode for the latest discount code and get the best rain gear for walking and cycling.
Order our new book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, out now from Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've been doing a lot of traveling lately, and one of the most essential items in my road |
| 0:06.6 | kit is my cleverhood, which packs neatly into its own pocket and unfurls in a snap. From Minneapolis to |
| 0:14.5 | Seattle to San Diego and back to Brooklyn, my cleverhood has kept me ready for any storm that comes along. |
| 0:22.6 | Maybe someone on your holiday list needs a Rover 2.0 rain cape in the limited edition |
| 0:28.3 | stormy print based on Noah Doppler radar data. The vivid eye-catching pattern keeps you more |
| 0:35.3 | visible in a car-centric world. For 15% off everything in the |
| 0:39.9 | Cleverhood store, head to Cleverhood.com slash war on cars and enter code be a giver. That's |
| 0:48.1 | cleverhood.com slash war on cars code be a giver. Together, we can be ready for anything. This is The War on Cars, broadcasting not quite live from downtown Los Angeles. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm Doug Gordon, and I am here in the studio with Sarah Goodyear. |
| 1:26.6 | Hey, Doug. How you doing? |
| 1:28.3 | I'm good. We are now done with the first big leg of our book tour, which is why we are here in |
| 1:36.7 | Los Angeles, about to go our separate ways for the Thanksgiving break. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, and it's been just an incredible tour, and we had a great show in |
| 1:45.8 | LA last night. But I think that we should start at the beginning, but first we have some |
| 1:52.1 | business to get out of the way. We always have some business to get out of the way. We are on |
| 1:56.4 | Patreon at patreon.com slash the war on cars pod. So please become a member. You'll get access to exclusive |
| 2:04.6 | bonus episodes, stickers, early access to live shows. And we have a lot of those coming up still. |
| 2:12.0 | And also, the whole reason we're out here right now is because of our book, Life After Cars. |
| 2:25.2 | You can go to Lifeaftercars.com and order the book there if you haven't and find out about all of our book events. |
| 2:29.2 | So what we're going to do in this episode, it's going to be pretty casual. |
| 2:30.5 | We're really just chatting. We're both pretty wiped out from being on the road for three weeks. And so this is |
| 2:36.6 | going to be just us kind of downloading what we've seen and done over the last three weeks, |
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