Name: The War on Cars & CityNerd
Start: 2025-11-05T19:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-05T19:30:00-08:00
Location: The Great Hall

The War on Cars & CityNerd

Life After Cars — With Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Ray Delahanty

Date:: Wednesday, November 5
Time:: 7:30 pm PST
Cost:: $25 – $50 + Optional Book Add-on

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Venue

: The Great Hall
: 1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

Note: Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM.

Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

This is a member presale event. Tickets will be open to the public on Tuesday, July 22nd at 10:00 AM.

From left to right: Headshots of Doug Gordon, Sarah Goodyear, and Ray Delehanty

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This is a member presale event. Tickets will be open to the public on Tuesday, July 22nd at 10:00 AM.

When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were considered a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty. Whether it’s climate change, congestion, the effects on our health, or the damage to nature, cars ruin everything.

In their new book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon — hosts of the podcast The War on Cars — unpack the scale of damage caused by automobile dependency, the forces that have created our current crisis and are invested in perpetuating it, and the way that the fight for better transportation is deeply linked to the fight for a more equitable and just society.

Town Hall Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club are proud to present Goodyear and Gordon in a conversation with Ray Delahanty — aka CityNerd on YouTube — about what people can do to realize a world with fewer metal boxes zooming around.

Doug Gordon is one of the leading voices in the livable streets movement and is the co-host of The War on Cars podcast as well as the co-author of the book Life After Cars (Thesis/Penguin Random House, October 2025). He has written for The Guardian, The New Republic, Salon, Curbed, Jalopnik, the New York Daily News, and Streetsblog. As a TV producer with credits for PBS, ABC, Discovery, History, Travel and NatGeo, Doug knows how to tell a good story. Using these skills, he has advised transportation advocacy organizations, climate groups, and mobility companies on communications strategies that make the case for smarter, safer, and more sustainable cities. Doug is a tireless advocate and has fought for expanded bicycle lanes, bike sharing, pedestrian space, and transit in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Sarah Goodyear is a journalist who writes about the way cities work. Her work has appeared in CityLab, Grist, the New York Daily News, and many other venues. She is the cofounder and cohost of The War on Cars, a podcast that looks at the effects of automobile dependence on our society, and the author of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, published by Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She is also the author of a novel, View from a Burning Bridge, published by Red Hen Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ray Delahanty is the creator behind CityNerd, a weekly video series that explores urbanism, transportation, and all the things that make cities unique. The CityNerd channel appears on YouTube and the Nebula streaming platform, and its point of view is strongly influenced by his professional background in transportation planning and traffic analysis. Prior to starting the channel in 2021, Ray’s career spanned 15 years as a planner and project manager for consulting firms and public agencies in Portland, Oregon.

Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club.

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