Month: April 2023
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Vision Zero and the Bicycle Future
2:33 on.soundcloud.com/gjUubViolence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city’s pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team. 21:59 on.soundcloud.com/nW5ByLives Above All Else: Columbus, Ohio is on board…
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Bike Infrastructure and Carfreedom
1:00 on.soundcloud.com/aUw3uThis is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass…
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Changes
2:24 on.soundcloud.com/ocg3pWild at Heart: A girl tames a big-kid bike in “Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike,” by bestselling children’s book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story. 19:44 on.soundcloud.com/7e3vNNo Time For Losers: Pittsfield’s City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on…
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Summit
1:19.70 on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an “adjacent” Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride’s sponsors. 16:01…
