Month: July 2025
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#2529 From LA to Halifax: Bike Battles, Memorials, and Momentum
A West Hollywood memorial and ghost bike placing for cyclist Blake Ackerman, killed by hit-and-run. Streets Are For Everyone Director of LA County Advocacy, Brett Slaughenhaupt (3:00). Hit and runs from a Legal POV: James Pocrass (6:01). A simple four point plan to stop hit and runs. BikinginLA.com blogger Ted Rogers (13:06). The Los Angeles…
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#2528 Opportunities in crisis for NYC protected lanes, Bike Life “buyout” for street vendors in LA, an “Anti-Vehicle Agenda” suspected in San Diego
Taylor made it to Michigan, and having ridden to LAX in 56 minutes, he’s never going back…to driving (1:13). Taylor talked to Tal Babcock, employee of a cafe in a former railroad depot where his grandfather was the Station Master, on the Michigan North Central bike route (2:41). A NY judge rules NYC Mayor Adams…
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#2527 – Tactical Urbanism and Bike Activism in Seattle and Winnipeg + Bike Painting
Taylor’s riding his bike to LAX, then biking to car-free Mackinac island, MI (0:56). Bike activist and Cascade Bike Club volunteer Merlin Rainwater was brushed by a bus after being let out in a dangerous place by a Seattle bike lane. After a hit and run on a cyclist in the same spot, Merlin and…
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#2526 – Pushing Back on Bikelash (repeat from August of 2023)
Magnus White’s not-accidental car killing and the language of car “accidents,” with No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling’s LA bike calendar organizer Raphael Hernandez (2:31). Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike’s Kevin Claxton (13:20). RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer,…
