Month: April 2025
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#2516 – Up With Slow Streets, Crossings, and Infrasisters, Down With Crosswalk Creepers
Amy, gravel rider (1:05). News (3:04): Street safety advocates call for protected bike lanes on California’s deadly Pacific Coast Highway. The City of Sacramento will be the first in the Nation to use cameras on buses that detect cars parked in bike lanes. Austin, Tx is going to spend 80,000 to remove a two way…
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#2515 – Different Strokes
News: Healthy Streets LA, the ballot measure which requires Los Angeles to implement bike infrastructure every time city streets are repaved, is being ignored by the county’s transportation agency, LA Metro. Taylor talks with the founder of Streets For All, Michael Schneider, who led the HLA campaign, and the Editor of Streetsblog LA, Joe Linton,…
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#2514 – Bike Vessels and Arbitrary Lines
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Put the Phone Away or Pay” campaign emphasizes education and enforcement but not engineering. Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, shares his practice of suing distracted drivers as a deterrent (0:26). A driver was found guilty of Reckless Vehicular Homicide in the killing…
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#2513 – State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented LA, and Bike storage
Listener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean task of Omaha bike advocacy (1:40). #Teslatakedown (2:45). The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would remediate the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division…
