Life After Cars

That is Doug Gordon.

And, well, he's also author of a book, co-author of a book, I should say, Life After Cars, Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile.

Doug.

We're here to talk about life with cars, which is what we're dealing with right now, as well as the topic of your book, what we're going to have afterwards.

It's in that range of about 40,000.

1.3, 1.5 million people per year around the world, not to mention all the people who are severely injured, disabled.

deal with all sorts of health effects to cars then there's all the land that we sacrifice literal animal sacrifice to this god this malik of of ours um and you know i think we start the book uh life after cars with the history of how we got here and there's a really excellent book that we draw on called fighting traffic by peter norton who's a historian at the university of virginia and The story we've been told is that America had a love affair with the car.

The car rolled off the assembly line, the Model T, in 1908.

We are so excited to be at Hunter College on Friday, November 6th.

Go to lifeaftercars.com. That's where you'll find the link to buy tickets.

Thanks.

this is the war on cars i'm doug gordon i'm sarah goodyear and we are on patreon at patreon.com slash the war on cars pod head on over there and sign up to support the podcast So we're going to get right to it.

keep it up.

Pick up a copy of our book, Life After Cars, Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, wherever you get your books.

Go to lifeaftercars.com for more.

And don't forget our show at Hunter College on Friday, November 6th with our special guest, Jeanette Sadek-Khan.

We are gonna be talking with Norah Learson, who is acting president of the Chicago Transit Authority.

We met Norah when we were in Chicago earlier this year doing a book event with Better Streets Chicago.

It was a great night, and honestly, we could have talked with her for hours, so we are incredibly excited to have her here with us today.

Norah Learson, welcome to "The War on Cars."

Yes.

But before we start the conversation, some business.

You can support us on Patreon at patreon.com/thewaroncars pod, and you can also buy our book, "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile" from your favorite independent bookseller or wherever you get your books.

Speaking of the book, you can check out lifeaftercars.com for all of our upcoming live events, including St. Pete, Tampa, Nashville, Richmond, and our return to Hunter College here in New York on Friday, November 6th, when our guest will be former New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner, Jeanette Sadik-Khan.