Following ‘Life After Cars’ talk, Transit Now Tampa Bay organizes Saturday canvass for pro-transit candidates

Dayna Lazarus (L) in conversation with Doug Gordon at the Hillsborough College library in Ybor City, Florida on Oct. 13, 2026. Credit: Briera Crocket / Transit Now Tampa Bay Community leaders and members gathered on the Hillsborough (Community) College Ybor City campus on Oct. 13 to hear from Doug Gordon, podcast co-host of The War on Cars and co-author of Life After Cars. The discussion was a good warmup for the canvassing that transit activists will do in Tampa over the next couple weekends as the early voting windows takes locals to Election Day. Gordon spent some time biking Tampa’s streets and provided a professional outsider’s assessment of his experience. Gordon called out that the public art he encountered was excellent but often seemed to be filling empty space. This desolate feeling continued for him in places like Marion Avenue in downtown, a bus-dedicated road he flashed a picture of and said “who would want to spend time here?” This liminal feel carried thro