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  • Perfect and Good

    Fight the Power: NYC’s Transportation Alternatives tries to build safe streets infrastructure despite a hostile Mayoral administration. With Alexa Sledge.

    Staying the Course: SF bike activists Robin Pam, Amandeep Jawa, and Sara Barz still support a center-running bike lane on Valencia Street in San Francisco.
    7:09 on.soundcloud.com/fTdsf

    Not So Fast: Stacey Randecker and Luke Bornheimer reprise their perspective on Valencia Street’s center-running bike lane.
    24:02 on.soundcloud.com/g5dt4

    Trails Friend: Friends of the Northampton Trails President George Kohout reports from Northampton, Massachusetts, where bike advocacy has local government on its side.
    33:48 on.soundcloud.com/ZRLYj

    Critical Mass: too annoying to drivers, or just right? With Patty Wiens.
    45:52 on.soundcloud.com/XYXa9

    Honored: Eli Akira-Kaufman, Executive Director of Bike LA, describes the importance and fun of Bike Fest, California Assemblymember and candidate for the U.S. Congress Laura Friedman relays her transportation priorities, and Terence Heuston relates the long road to upgrading bike lanes on iconic Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.
    50:35 on.soundcloud.com/Ezq4q
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  • Leaders

    Intro: Bike LA’s “Bike Fest” with Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA.
    Not Good Enough: a deadly bike lane design in SF, with Sustainable Transportation activists Luke Bornheimer and Stacey Randecker.
    8:03 on.soundcloud.com/vXtts

    It works if you work it: a center running bike lane that works in the East Bay, with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz.
    22:06 on.soundcloud.com/vpAZP

    She is the champion: multimodal, sustainable transportation advocate & Mayor of bike-friendly Santa Monica, Gleam Davis.
    28:55 on.soundcloud.com/5kdaW

    Ebike Rx: Northampton, Massachusetts P.E. teacher Salem Derby talks to students about how he’s healing from a knee injury using an Ebike.
    43:46 on.soundcloud.com/nuSsj
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  • Happy Trails

    Intro
    Lindsay, Taylor and Nick on the upcoming show and Taylor’s triumphant return from bike-friendly Spain.

    Carrying Water: Eric Berger’s article on the American Sepp Kuss’ victory in the Vuelta a España. arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a…ce-on-the-planet/
    10:15 on.soundcloud.com/4T4bd

    The Best Get Better: The end of Parking Mandates in New York City with Open Plans NYC Co-Executive Director Sara Lind.
    26:40 on.soundcloud.com/6CoLb

    Imminent: A 104 mile car free fully protected network of converted rail trails across Massachusetts, from Boston to Northampton. With rail trail warrior Craig Della Penna.
    37:50 on.soundcloud.com/yrMCf
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  • Make Way For Bikes

    Pilgrimage: Taylor Nichols’ walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

    Park It: Landscape Studies professor Reid Bertone Johnson created a playground for a day in a parking space for international parking day.
    5:13 on.soundcloud.com/QKt7s

    Exercised: An interview with Andrew Leonard, the author of The NY Times Article “How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise.”
    15:05 on.soundcloud.com/MdgQi

    Oregon Advocate: Jenna Berman, an Active Transportation Liaison for the Oregon Department of Transportation, on the state of bicycle advocacy in Oregon.
    31:52 on.soundcloud.com/6deUB

    Science: Dr. Grace Peng, a Bike activist/physicist, on why we should bike more, drive less (and more slowly).
    42:52 on.soundcloud.com/FSj73
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  • Long Live Biking

    Cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick read listener email.

    6:44 on.soundcloud.com/5aGsc
    Into The Blue: A company redesigns cities for biking as part of making them like “Blue Zones,” the places where people live longest. With Dan Burden, Director of Inspiration and Innovation, Blue Zones LLC.

    26:34 on.soundcloud.com/T4Qqm
    Kindermoord, American Style: A ribbon cutting at an unprotected bike lane on a busy street prompts LA Streetsblogger Liz Schiller to ask, “Why do we love our cars more than our children?” With Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.
    la.streetsblog.org/2023/08/15/why-…ve-our-children

    37:24 on.soundcloud.com/fmvmr
    Scooters V. Climate Change: A Lime executive discusses micromobility’s inclusion in California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard program. Calvin Thigpen, Director of Policy Research at Lime, with Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity.

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  • Bikeable Nation

    Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet.

    5:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/nS5hG
    Consult: Jeff Speck, author of “Suburban Nation” and “Walkable Cities,” on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols.

    40:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/45DaG
    Legislate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Policy Director of League of American Bicyclists, interviewed by Taylor Nichols.

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  • Health v Convenience

    4:51 on.soundcloud.com/XNjqH
    Healthy Pastime: The personal and planetary health benefits of biking with scientist and Resources Chair for League of Women Voters in Los Angeles Dr. Grace Peng and Isabella Chu, Associate Director of the Data Core at Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences. By Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols.

    32:41 on.soundcloud.com/eQiMF
    Business Bikelash: attachment to parking undermines livability and endangers a safe, healthy road design planned in Northampton, Massachusetts. With Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, and Elena Huisman, co-Founder of Main Street for Everyone.

    49:41 on.soundcloud.com/CTsJq
    Yes: Joanna Gubman connects land use, transportation, and environmentalism with bikes as Executive Director for Urban Environmentalists, a board member of the SF Bicycle Coalition, and Environmental Director at YIMBY Action. By Seamus Garrity.

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  • Freedom in Motion

    3:53 on.soundcloud.com/wZMqa
    Here, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City,” and “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.” By Lindsay Sturman.

    32:57 on.soundcloud.com/BkV3v
    Show Me the Way: On bike tourism and the Western New England Greenway, with Dan McGuinness and Tom O’ Brien. By Lily Hoffman-Strickler.

    45:02 on.soundcloud.com/2P4aJ
    Static Motion: “Bike scribble” artist Kathleen King Page has her bike sculptures, murals, and canvasses featured across the country. With Lily Hoffman-Strickler.

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  • No to Naysayers Podcast

    Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick.

    Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what’s being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler.

    Picture if You Will: The Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts has big ideas for biking in the already bike friendly town. Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra With Director of Planning & Sustainability Carolyn Misch, Pedal People co-founder Ruthy Woodring, and Nick Richert.

    Talk to Me: Pablo Lebidensky writes about mobility in Buenos Aires, and talks with Nick about it.

    Spokes ‘N Stuff: Bike mechanic Manny Alvarado on the basics of maintenance. Also: Burning Man vet Ves gets his bike tuned. With Taylor Nichols.

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  • Push Back on Bikelash

    Magnus White’s not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling’s LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. linktr.ee/trashpandacycling

    13:07 on.soundcloud.com/Umnsp
    Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike’s Kevin Claxton. www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/

    35:44 on.soundcloud.com/Srv9m
    RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with “Shift” documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem Bitterman, with Taylor. ragbrai.com/documentary/

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