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Charlie’s News: New bike lanes in Boston increase bike trips and decrease car traffic; Astoria, Queens rips up a partially installed bike lane due to bikelash; Iowa City free bus ridership and service is up, emissions down; FSA/HSA pre-tax $ can be put towards a bike- with a doctor’s note (4:57).
Montreal plows snow from bike lanes and sidewalks. Why can’t every snowy city? We ask Patrick Murphy of Oh The Urbanity (7:28).
A round table on the NY Times Article “The Dangers of Ebikes” with our New Yorker/Marin County panel: Warren Wells, Policy and Advocacy Director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition; Carl Mahaney, Director of Streetopia Upper West Side; Sophia Lebowitz, writer of “The ‘Problem’ With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones,” and Miser, organizer of the subreddit MicromobilityNYC (14:50).
A bike tour of Japan by Aaron Lipstadt (42:25).
Also, 12/12/25 is the last day people can order Bike Talk books from the Bookshop page at biketalk.org with Standard Shipping to have them arrive on time to put under the tree.
