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Healthy Streets

August 15, 2022

Transcript: otter.ai/u/C5985nInxtDx2b3QZJSlMcOg7oI

If the Los Angeles City Council votes to adopt the Healthy Streets LA initiative on 08/26/2022, the city will finally follow its own mobility plan, and add new bus and bike lanes on 1/3 of its streets.
Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, the nonprofit organization which created the Healthy Streets LA initiative, explains.
www.healthystreetsla.com/
bit.ly/hsla-council

9:40 – Nedra Deadwyler on her bike tours of the human and civil rights stories in the history of Atlanta: Civil Bikes.
With Ruthy Woodring.
civilbikes.com/

30:08 – Zach Katz uploads streets redesigned to be people-friendly using the artificial intelligence program DALL-E.
With Stacey Randecker.
twitter.com/betterstreetsai

52:10 – “Segway Batman,” a Chicago Segway tour guide, held a crosswalk protest to raise awareness of deadly driver behavior.
twitter.com/Segway_Ruins

56:45 – Several hundred bicyclists rode through Toronto’s High Park in response to police harrassment of cyclists. Dave Shellnut, the Biking Lawyer, on why he organized the ride.
twitter.com/TheBikingLawyer

bike, cars, people, streets
Bike Reps

August 9, 2022

Administrating the Massachusetts and Los Angeles County bicycle coalitions, with Executive Directors Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman.

www.massbike.org/
www.la-bike.org/

*Galen hosts a Bike Talk at biketalk881.com/
**Edited by Kevin Burton, cofounder of the West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition.

22:13
The Bicycle Mayor of Toronto, Lanrick Bennett, Jr. on his “origin story,” his daughter’s “bike strike,” biking with kids, and his real-time education of dangerous drivers.

bycs.org/
twitter.com/BicycleMayorTO

bicycle, bike, music, people, ride, SoundCloud
Get Active

July 30, 2022

Laura Friedman speaks on her bill, AB2438, which would get California’s notoriously car-centric transportation agencies to align their funding formulas with California’s values around climate change.Contact the Senate Appropriations Committee to get the bill moving forward – sapro.senate.ca.gov/cal.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/miss…needs-a-b-2438/19:30 – Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize and host of The Life Sized City, is crowdfunding an effort to get bikes to the displaced people of Ukraine.www.gofundme.com/f/bikes4ukrainewww.colville-andersen.com/39:23 – Doug Gordon, host of The War On Cars Podcast, speaks about the War effort.thewaroncars.org/brooklynspoke.com/58:44 – MassBike Executive Director Galen Mook and Northampton activist Elena Huisman on bike legislation and ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding in Massachusetts.www.massbike.org/Edited by Kevin Burton.

bike, bikes, cars, music, northampton, SoundCloud
Slow Jams

July 23, 2022

00: MassBike Minute with MassBike Executive Director/Cohost Galen Mook.

3:42: Handbuilt bike collector Aaron Lipstadt shows his favorites to Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.

27:42: Stacey Randecker, San Francisco street activist, on “Just A Minute” protests and the work of the SF Bike Coalition. With Nick Richert.

41:29: Chicago Bike Grid Now: Rony Islam and Emily Wilson with Nick Richert.

50:01: Plotting data to for Canadian bike lanes: Theoretical Physicist Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, with Nick Richert.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/jg_i45oHFnoZ6gKUWRp3y9zzDdI

bike, bikes, cars, music, people, SoundCloud
Urban Riders

July 11, 2022

Jessica Fizgerald Ruvalcava is the first recipient of an electric cargo bike from fellow Los Angeles Ecovillage member Jimmy Lizama’s “Reciclos” project.11:45 Kyle Lucas is cofounder of Better Streets Chicago.26:25 Stacey Rendecker refusing to move while demonstrating for safe streets in San Francisco.43:00 Lucy Maloney engages the cycling Community in Vancouver.Edited by Kevin Burton.

music, SoundCloud
Safe Streets Rebels

July 4, 2022

San Francisco’s Safe Streets Rebels form “people protected bike lanes” where no safe lanes exist, hold slow rides that block car traffic on the contested Great Walkway, and have vigils at locations where car drivers kill pedestrians or bicyclists.
Maureen Persico, Scott Feeney, and Brett Bertocci relate.
www.safestreetrebel.com

32:29
Architect, urbanist Mike Eliason, founder of Larchlab, on sustainable mobility and ecodistricts.
With Lindsay Sturman.
www.larchlab.com/what-we-do/

42:49
TheGotBike blogger Salem Mazzawy’s purpose has been to get people to ride bikes. Ruthy Woodring reports on his hit and run, and his partner Adele’s response.
Also, the sentencing of the distracted driver who killed Northampton High music teacher Charlie Braun.
thegotbike.blogspot.com
www.masslive.com/news/2022/06/hal…or-15-years.html

ecodistricts, greatwalkway, hitandrun, rebels, SoundCloud
Open Streets and Two Wheels Good

June 25, 2022

The first Ciclovías began in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. In 2010, after immense effort by the cycling community of Los Angeles, an Open Streets event, there called CicLAvia, first took place in the heart of Downtown—and became an instant hit.

Dozens of individuals and organizations have put their weight behind CicLAvia. In this episode, we speak with one of the prime movers of the city’s ongoing CicLAvia program, Tafarai Bayne, as well as Jacob Wessel of the Boston DOT on plans for Open Streets events in Massachusetts.
-With cohost Taylor Nichols

17:51 “Two Wheels Good” author, journalist Jody Rosen, talks about the impact of the bicycle on humanity over the last two hundred years–again, with Taylor Nichols.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, bikebook, bikehistory, openstreets, SoundCloud
Why Should I Care

June 22, 2022

A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets.

Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook.

Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous “Boulevard of Death,” Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a “Boulevard of Life” after her son Asif was killed on his bike there.
p2a.co/hHWt2A4

5 year old Zachary was killed by a car in a crosswalk in Berkeley, California. “Grandma” Beverly Shelton founded Families for Safe Streets Southern California, and her son, Dr. Frank Cruz, founded The Zachary Michael Cruz Foundation.
www.facebook.com/zmcfoundation/?ref=page_internal

48:35-Lindsay’s interview with Dutch traffic engineer Dick Van Veen
www.dickvanveen.nl/en/

Edited by Kevin Burton

Familiesforsafestreets, SoundCloud, trafficviolence
Biking Good and Bad

June 14, 2022

The founder of Pedal People, Ruthy Woodring, talks trash and bike repair.
Chicago Family Biking founder Rebeccah Resman and Streetsblog editor John Greenfield on the killing of a 3 year old on her mother’s bike in a street with a bike lane.
chi.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/fema…nway-in-uptown/
www.chicagofamilybiking.org/

bikelab, chicago, music, pedalpeople, safestreets, SoundCloud
Transportation Futurist

May 30, 2022

Robin Chase, Executive Chairwoman of New Urban Mobility and founder of Zipcar, among other roles, talks about the future of bikes with Bike Talk co-host Andrea Learned.

bicycle, future, mobility, transportation