Listener email: the difference between bike packing and bike touring, and what handlebar bags and panniers to get (1:11).
New York City has begun a policy of criminalizing minor traffic violations for cyclists. We talk to Carl Mahaney of Streetopia Upper West Side and Open Plans, and Josh Wood of the New York City Bicycle Messenger Association (7:08).
The legality of criminalizing cyclists, with James Pocrass (28:09).
In other news, a NYC Critical Mass to protest overpolicing cyclists, a study showing protected bike lanes work, an Idaho Stop bill in NY, the national spread of Waymo, and a Consumer Reports petition to fix front-end blind zones in SUVs (34:25).
The author of Bicycling in Paradise and Radical Cadence in the End Times, Florida Atlantic Association Professor Stacey Balkan, talks about petroculture, Cycle Punk, Ivan Illich, and teaching these days in Florida (41:38).
