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Pending Active Transportation Legislation in California

October 8, 2021

Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk:
AB 43: Allow lower speed limits
AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields
AB 773: Making slow streets permanent
AB 1238: Repealing jaywalking laws
Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, california, music, newsom, SoundCloud
Laura Friedman

October 2, 2021

California State Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, safe streets, speed, education, and more.
Edited by Kevin Burton.

ab43, education, laura, music, parking, SoundCloud
Bycs

September 5, 2021

Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned interviews Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS.org, on how the bicycle transform cities, and cities transform the world.

With emphasis on the BYCS.org “Bicycle Mayors” program in the U.S. and what these amazing volunteer leaders are doing to forward this call.

bicycle, bicyclemayor, bycs, music, SoundCloud
Jeanie Ward Waller

September 4, 2021

California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects.
With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman.
Edited by Kevin Burton.

calbike, caltrans, music, SoundCloud, streetsblog
Protected Lanes 1

September 1, 2021

Sunset 4 All is crowdfunding a protected bike lane design for Sunset Boulevard, with traffic engineer Rock Miller doing the design for free.https://www.sunset4all.com/https://twitter.com/rockmillerRock talks with Jonathan Maus, who’s seen the evolution of Portland as a bike friendly city over the past two decades in his role as the editor and founder of Bike Portland.https://bikeportland.org/https://twitter.com/Jonathan_MausWith an update on Los Angeles City Council motions by Streets For All founder Michael Schneider.https://streetsforall.org/Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, infrastructure, losangeles, music, portland, SoundCloud
Ciclavia Calbike League Door Zone

August 25, 2021

Ciclavia’s back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day.
www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21

California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition.

www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/

The federal infrastructure bill is mixed, but better than nothing, says Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists.

https://www.bikeleague.org/content/bikes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill

Julie Huntington and Sherin Bennett, who bike in NYC and LA, respectively, on yelling in the door zone.

twitter.com/sybbys/status/1425240152981467136?s=20

Hosted by Don Ward and Nick Richert

Edited by Kevin Burton

calbike, ciclavia, jaywalking, music, safetystop, SoundCloud
Bikes Transit Politics

August 21, 2021

Bicycle and Transit researcher Niels Van Oort is here interviewed by Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman on an overview of research into combined bicycle and transit mode:
nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/overview-…research/
smartptlab.tudelft.nl/our-group/niels-van-oort

Edited by Kevin Burton.

BikeMayor, bycs, Holland, music, netherlands, SoundCloud
Craig Della Penna

July 31, 2021

Craig Della Penna worked in the railroad industry, and wrote a series of books on the history of old railroad lines converted to walking and biking trails.

Craig also worked at the New England Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to prevent bad policy at the state and local level, “parachuting” into rail trail wars in the northeast.

He is the Executive Director of the The Norwottuck Network, a non-profit org that supports the Mass Central Rail Trail.

Craig is also a realtor specializing in properties near rail trails.

www.nnnetwork.net/
www.Gs2021.org
www.traillink.com/

massachusetts, music, newengland, railtrail, SoundCloud
Rachel Aldred

July 24, 2021

Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy, talks to Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned about who we plan for, planning not for cycling as it is but how it will be, how people respond to change, getting more people on bikes, decision makers on bikes, changing the narrative of cycling, overcoming barriers to getting funding for active travel, Low Traffic Neighborhoods as a term and in practice, cycle logistics and vans versus cargo bikes, bike infrastructure improvements, helping the average person get into cycling, Active Travel Academy, the language of crashes, and the connection between climate emergency and road change.

bikes4climate, music, SoundCloud
Connecticut River Valley Bikes

July 17, 2021

Don and Nick virtually explore bike use in Western Massachusetts with Shannon Bliven, Community Outreach and Business Development person at Valley Bike Share
www.valleybike.org/,

and Ruthy Woodring, co-founder of Pedal People, a worker’s collective that hauls trash and compost in Northampton and surrounding areas.
www.pedalpeople.coop/

bicycle, bikeshare, music, newengland, northampton, SoundCloud