Month: August 2023
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Freedom in Motion
3:53 on.soundcloud.com/wZMqaHere, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” and “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.” By Lindsay Sturman. 32:57 on.soundcloud.com/BkV3vShow Me the…
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No to Naysayers Podcast
Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick. Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what’s being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler. Picture if You Will: The Mayor…
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Push Back on Bikelash
Magnus White’s not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling’s LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. linktr.ee/trashpandacycling 13:07 on.soundcloud.com/UmnspFight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike’s Kevin Claxton. www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ 35:44 on.soundcloud.com/Srv9mRAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem…
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Politics and the Bicycle
Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver’s City Council, ABC (“A Better City”), ripped out iconic Stanley Park’s protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there’s always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick…
