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Latest Episode

Curbing Traffic

July 10, 2021

Melissa and Chris Bruntlett share the Netherlands model of reducing cars to create livable cities. Their new book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives is available at www.modacitylife.com/curbing-traffic

bicycle, infrastructure, music, netherlands, safety, SoundCloud
Marcel Steeman and Chris Bruntlett Lego Lanes

July 2, 2021

Marcel Steeman got enough votes for his bike-friendly city set to move on to the next stage at Lego Ideas. Will Denmark-based Lego take the idea and bike with it?
Interviewed by Chris Bruntlett, Marketing and Communication Manager with the Dutch Cycling Embassy, author of “Building the Cycling City” and “Curbing Traffic.”

bikeinfrastructure, dutchbiking, lego, music, netherlands, SoundCloud
Protected Lanes

June 25, 2021

Don Ward, Nick Richert, and Lindasy Sturman bring you-

Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell on the possible decision by the Oakland, Ca. DOT to rip out the city’s first protected bike lane.

Terence Heuston on Sunset4All’s crowdfunding effort to design a protected bike lane on Los Angeles’ vital Sunset Blvd, the heart of at least two neighborhoods on the High Injury Network.

Marven Norman on why ‘bicycle drivers’ oppose protected bike lanes.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

sf.streetsblog.org/2021/06/03/oakd…ing%20in%20them.

www.la-bike.org/sunset4all

bikedriver, music, oakdot, protectedlane, SoundCloud, sunset4all
Happy Hour

June 21, 2021

Don Ward talks to Lynn Ingram, Jim Shanman, Krista Carlson, Brian Russel, and Karen Kanady, who had nothing to do. Topics include:

bike polo
midnight ridazz
social rides
tv
bike nerds
portland
la
cats

bikepolo, midnightridazz, music, socialrides, SoundCloud, tv
Metros Active Transportation Funding

June 18, 2021

Wesley Reutimann dives into the details of Los Angeles Metro Active Transportation funding with Katie Lemmon, Manager of Transportation Planning at Metro.
Wesley is the Special Programs Director at Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV), and a special host of Bike Talk.
Edited by Kevin Burton

activetransportation, biking, lametro, music, SoundCloud, transportation
Nithya Raman

June 11, 2021

Don gives Nithya Raman a couple of suggestions for “politically easy” moves to make streets in her district safe, after the Los Angeles District 4 Councilmember updates Don on her battle to address homelessness in a humane way.

bicycle, completestreets, housing, losangeles, music, SoundCloud
Bike Mayor of London Ontario

June 4, 2021

The state of bicycles in London, Ontario with its (bike) Mayor Shelley Carr.
bycs.org/shelley-carr/

BikeMayor, bycs, Londonontario, music, shelleycarr, SoundCloud
Bike Mayors

May 21, 2021

The Bicycle Mayor Network by Amsterdam-based BYCS.org is a global initiative which promotes the bicycle as a solution to some of the most complex urban challenges.

Interviews with Bike Mayors Arcy Canumay of Waterloo, Canada and Jillian Banfield of Halifax, Canada; also, Lucas Snaije, BYCS Content and Communications Manager.

Plus a bike manifesto from Lindsay Sturman
twitter.com/LindsayJS

Co-hosted by Don Ward, Nick Richert, Lindsay Sturman, and Terence Heuston.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

BikeMayor, bycs, halifax, music, SoundCloud, waterloo
Beautiful Struggle for a Complete Street

May 15, 2021

Brand new Los Angeles CD 14 Councilmember Kevin De Leon, former “climate champion” with aspiration to be Mayor, wrote an open letter asking for more meetings on the Metro BRT’s plan for Eagle Rock. It seems the pro-short commute crowd of Eagle Rock have his ear now that Metro’s leaning to the “Beautiful Boulevard” option, which features a bike lane and slower traffic. Felicia Garcia, community organizer; Joe Linton, Streetsblog LA journalist/editor; and Seamus Garrity, not in his official role as a Field Representative for California Assemblymember Laura Friedman, preside. With Don Ward, safe streets organizer.

la.streetsblog.org/2021/05/14/kevi…-more-meetings/
www.latimes.com/opinion/story/202…ect-kevin-de-leon

bikepath, completestreets, infrastructure, metrobrt, music, SoundCloud
America Walks and Bikes on the Mutcd Revision

May 10, 2021

America Walks E.D. Mike McGinn and League of American Bicyclists E.D. Bill Nesper on ‘a once in a decade or more opportunity–’ the revising of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

The MUTCD is at once an ‘obscure’ document and ‘bible’ for engineers, controlling bikeways, crosswalks, speed limits, and other road design features.

The new administration and USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg give active transportation advocates reason to hope that the Manual will be rewritten with pedestrians and bicyclists in mind.

League’s MUTCD action alert – p2a.co/nG8UFZU

Background blog on the MUTCD and the League’s proposition: bikeleague.org/content/mutcd-ref…ty-rewrite-future

Bike-side Chat with Sec Pete – www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VSBTNGDpb

Mike McGinn and America Walks links:
americawalks.org/urgent-action-al…r-safer-streets/

americawalks.org/how-the-mutcd-cr…-to-access-food/

americawalks.org/new-webinar-the-…ity-and-climate/

www.streetfilms.org/biking-to-work-…or-mike-mcginn/

bicyclists, completestreets, music, mutcd, pedestrians, SoundCloud