Month: September 2025

  • #2538 – Reasons to Ride

    A JAMA study finds biking is associated with lower dementia incidence (23:00). Should we tell people they ought to bike to COSTCO? A Bluesky user responds to episode #2535 (2:49).  Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz explains why federal bike infrastructure doesn’t have to be “stupid,” in response to Charles Marohn’s comments in episode…

  • #2537 – Validation

    Listener emails in response to last episode’s bike lane hater from Eric Brightwell, host of the Nobody Drives in LA podcast and Ross, a West Hollywood vehicular cyclist who uses the street on which Bike Lane Hater does not want a lane (0:21).  What are the legal implications for organizing a community bike ride, bike…

  • #2536 – Answers.

    Bike tours of Portland, Oregon by Cycle Portland, an interview of Charlotte by listener contributor Jonathan Weiss (1:26). A Love Letter to Suburbia is a new book on how car dependency, corporate control, and disintegrating community values have eroded the sense of connection and purpose that once defined American neighborhoods, and how to fix that…

  • These Are The People in Your Neighborhood

    Why, being flat and on Manhattan’s “doorstep,” is Long Island so resistant to all bike infrastructure? asks listener Sean Cirillo (0:53). West Hollywood bike lane opponent Kyle Brazil debates Taylor about installing a bike lane on Fountain Avenue (6:13).  The author of A Love Letter to Suburbia, Diane Alisa, has empathy for conservatives and suburban…