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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
Scott Epstein for La Cd5 From a Northampton Point of View

May 22, 2022

Scott Epstein is an active transportation progressive running for the powerful position of Council District 5 representative in Los Angeles. In this interview with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols, Scott lays out his priorities: ending homelessness, addressing the Los Angeles housing/affordability crisis, and taking local action on climate change. Epstein is able to connect all these with active transportation. George Kohout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails in Western Massachusetts, provides an East Coast perspective on Scott’s candidacy.Edited by Kevin Burton.scottforla.com/meet-scottfntrails.org/about/directors/

activetransportation, bicycle, losangeles, northampton
All Biking Is Local

May 15, 2022

A ribbon cutting for the new segment connecting Pittsfield to Adams along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Western Massachusetts.www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/Sta…-Extension.html47:00Butch Flowers, a farmer and handyman in the hill towns of Massachusetts, on his plan to ride from Portland to Massachusetts this summer.

Ashuwillticook, multi-use, openspace, railtrail
Bikeways Ca Legislation Nyc Open Street Mass Rail Trail

May 8, 2022

Bikeways, active transportation, climate change, and safe streets with Laura Friedman, California state Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, in conversation with Dave Snyder, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California.
a43.asmdc.org/

New York City’s Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mile stretch where “vehicles are guests” on five-mile-per-hour shared streets.
Jim burke, co-Founder of the 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition , talks to Carl Mahaney of Streetopia Upper West Side.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/34th…led-paseo-park/

Berkshire Bike Path advocates, elected officials, and the Massachusetts DOT showed up to inaugurate a 1.5 mile section of the Ashuwillticook rail trail in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Nick Russo, a bike and pedestrian Planner with Berkshire regional planning commission, served coffee on an e-trike.
www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/Sta…-Extension.html

Edited by Kevin Burton

bicycle, bikeway, california, DOT, massachusetts, nyc, openstreet, railtrail
Car Freedom

May 1, 2022

Kicking off Bike Month and new car-free days on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. With Galen Mook, Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition
baystatebikemonth.org
Massbike.org

2:15
They know in the Netherlands that making streets safe means controlling cars. Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy Communications Manager and author of Building the Cycling City and Curbing Traffic, tells Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman what they know in the Netherlands. Part Two.

Edited by Kevin Burton.
dutchcycling.nl/en/

29:55
The Northeast Los Angeles Eagle Rock community’s Beautiful Boulevard plan for the Noho to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit system was approved in a win for livability. With Michael Macdonald, Eagle Rock activist.
la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/metr…k-and-pasadena/
www.eaglerockforward.org/

43:28
Car Free JFK Drive in San Francisco, A Victory
-With Stacy Rendecker, @drivingmzstacey
sf.streetsblog.org/2022/04/26/hurr…menade-forever

brt, cycling, livability, netherlands