Month: February 2025
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Bike Talk 2508 – Freedom to Bike
Taylor’s science-backed brush with car-induced unhappiness (0:22) New York City congestion pricing will resist Trump’s attempts to kill it, predicts NYC Transportation Alternatives Communications Director, Alexa Sledge (3:25). Maybe the NYC toll program would fare better if we labelled them “Congestion tariffs,” suggests Listener Rick Bosacker (10:35). Congestion Pricing, climate change, and the dire situation…
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#2507 – Cars make us unhappy
On vacation in Fraser, CO, “the ice box of America,” self-proclaimed “single track capital of the world,” Taylor talks track with Ben Quinn, owner of Ice Box Mountain Sports (2:08). Our friend, Los Angeles bike advocate, cyclocross racer, and survivor of the Eaton fire, Dorothy Wong, on rebuilding Los Angeles (5:23). A California court’s ruling…
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Bike Talk #2506 – Donald Shoup, Parking Reformer; 15 minute cities; bike books & movies
Donald Shoup, author of “The High Cost of Free Parking,” has died. Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, talks about Shoup’s decades of teaching, writing, and speaking on reversing subsidized free car storage (1:16). Find our interviews with Donald Shoup at biketalk.org. CalBike Joins Amicus Brief in Safe Streets Accountability Case after lower…
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Bikes for kids in LA and Florida, Black Girls Do Bike, and ebikes over 60
Taylor almost gets killed, and Stacey does get hit (1:14). Taylor fixes up bikes for fire victims in Los Angeles with Jim Shanman and Walk n Rollers (5:10). News, powered by Ted Rogers’ Bikinginla.com (9:41):Waymo reports AVs are safer than human drivers.Bike theft increased 15% last yearThe League of American Bicyclists is out with their…
