Toronto’s successful, popular bike lanes are being ripped out by the provincial government of Ontario, though the province itself found that removing lanes would barely reduce congestion, whereas keeping the lanes would reduce crashes. Robert Zaichkowski, Albert Koehl and Jun Nogami report on the lane removal and protests there. 

3:00

News: 

• Cycling protest blocks Toronto bike lane removal work along Bloor Street stretch
• WeHo Council Rejects Compromise on Fountain Bike Lanes as Accusations Fly 
• Expansion Of Automated Ticketing Program For Bike, Bus Lane Blockers OK’d By City Panel in Chicago
• Mayor Mamdani Expands Citi Bike to Seven More Neighborhoods, Adding 230-Plus Stations in NYC
• City Council makes bike lane around City Hall permanent a year after it was installed by PennDOT

21:33

Listener Rick Bosacker grades drivers in “Passing Grades,”

and Baltimore Fred writes again. 

24:35

Windshield bias from crash report to jury trial, with bike lawyer Jim Pocrass

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The Sonoma and Marin County Bike Coalitions pushed for the 2026 passage of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) measure to fund a passenger rail line and bike/ped path between Sonoma County and Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area. We talk with Eris Weaver, Executive Director of the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, Tarrell Kullaway, Executive Director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, and Julia Gonzalez, Communications and Marketing Manager of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. 

33:39

Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley has a new multi-model trail, the 40 mile long CV Link. Taylor talks with John at the Trek Bike store in Palm Springs about some new products to enhance your rides.

51:25

Taylor on how Brandon McNulty, super domestique, won the 2026 World Road Race Championships in Montreal to become the first American man to win the elite men’s road race world title in 33 years.

1:23

Interviews from the Bicycle Film Festival Before Party at King Kog bike shop in Brooklyn. With-

Isaac Andersen, Utility Cyclist, on how that’s ‘weird’ for an American.

5:36

Ralph Papillon, director of “Dawn Patrol,” a film exploring how cycling fosters friendship, confidence, and inclusivity for women and non-binary riders. 

10:32

Steve Vaccaro, NYC bike lawyer, on Mamdani’s proposed 15mph limit on Central Park bikers.

13:44

And an interview with Bicycle Film Festival Director Brendt Barbur on keeping the BFF going since 2001.

19:13 

80 year-old Bob Tuttle talks to Taylor about riding an E-tricycle from Petaluma, California to San Diego, a distance of about 900 miles, in 2 weeks. 

25:40

News: 

Turin, Italy cyclists protest driver murders. 

Cyclists install their own bike lane at a Boston intersection where a cyclist was killed.

Toronto’s Critical Mass protests the Ford administration’s impending removal of the city’s biggest bike lanes.

More than 1,000 cyclists ride from Koreatown to downtown LA in protest against traffic violence.

42:25

NYC’s Vision Zero Reimagined plan, E-bike hearings, and Park Avenue redesign interpreted by Micromobility NYC organizer Miser, in conversation with Nick.

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