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This American Bike Vol 5 Sarahs Diary

December 15, 2020

Lindsay Sturman interviews Adult Beginner Bike Diarist Sarah Berry on UK’s Cycle Revolution and her part in it.twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry

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120520 Scott Epstein for La City Council District 5

December 7, 2020

Scott Epstein Chairs the Midcity West Community Council. He’s a transportation advocate who’s had two neighborhood greenways approved through Mid City West. He’s a cyclist who commuted by bike and bus to his job as an education researcher at UCLA. He’s running for LA Council District 5.

https://twitter.com/scottforla
https://scottforla.co

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Nithya 1

November 25, 2020

Nithya Raman won her campaign for Los Angeles CD4 November 3, against an incumbent who stalled or opposed safe streets projects. Raman’s being called “LA’s first totally unbought elected official.”
www.nithyaforthecity.com/

Then, (34:00) Friends of Griffith Park don’t let arial trams in the park, according to Gerry Hans. friendsofgriffithpark.org/what-we-do/o…-park-board/

Felicia Garcia (1:08:20) of Equitable Eagle Rock calls for Metro to give alternatives to ripping out buffered bike lanes and other distasteful options for its Noho-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Also, to listen to actual bus riders instead of the nimby’s who’ve responded to Metro’s outreach.
www.equitableeaglerock.com

And lastly, This American Bike correspondent Lindsay Sturman interviews Car Dependency Campaigner and Adult Beginner Bike Rider Sarah Berry (1:18:54)on how the UK is hoping to start the “Cycle Revolution.” twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry

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102320 Nithya Raman

November 23, 2020

11 days before her historic election to Los Angeles CD 4, Councilmember Elect Nithya Raman, LA’s first “totally unbought elected official,” shares her ideas.
www.nithyaforthecity.com/

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091520 Ebikes Electric Cars and Climate

November 10, 2020

Ebikes, Electric Cars, and Climate
Grace Peng, scientist and Natural Resources Chair for League of Women Voters LA County & Beach Cities, teams up with Costa Samaras, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, to explore and explain how ebikes, but not electric cars, are a solution to pollution.

https://twitter.com/gspeng
https://twitter.com/CostaSamaras

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110620 Michael Schneider of Streets for Alls Post Election Update

November 6, 2020

Michael Schneider of Streets For All responds to the November 3, 2020 election.

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103020 State of the La County Bicycle Coalition

November 5, 2020

Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the LA County Bicycle Coalition, speaks on the state of the agency, his thoughts on Ciclavia, what we should focus on in bike advocacy, and his growing love of the bicycle as an idea, and in reality.

PS-KPFK’s in trouble. Please support our host station at this page: kpfk.wedid.it/campaigns/8079/1602

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103020 Ciclavias Would Be 10th Anniversary

November 5, 2020

Tafarai Bayne, Ciclavia’s Chief Strategist, discusses the history, present, and future of Ciclavia, whose 10th anniversary was 10/10/20.
With Ciclavia Board member and proud attendees of the first Ciclavia Jennifer Gill (co-host), Meghan Sahli-Wells (Mayor of Culver City), and Wesley Reutimann, Special Programs Director of Active SGV.

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101720 Vol 5 This American Bike La Mobility Plan 2035

November 1, 2020

Michael Schneider, Founder of LA’s nonprofit Streets For All, speaks about how to get Los Angeles to implement its own Mobility Plan 2035, which includes an extensive network of protected bike lanes from the Valleys to Long Beach. S4A has condensed the over two hundred page plan to a single map: www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…BGPxy&usp=sharing

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090520 Brandalism and Streets for All

November 1, 2020

This American Bike Vol. 3 with Don Ward, Nick Richert, and Jennifer Gill
I.
Streets For All founder Michael Schneider on why Los Angeles can’t implement its own LA Mobility Plan 2035, and related topics.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…BGPxy&usp=sharing

II.
Peter Marcuse of the Brandalism cooperative with artist Michelle Tylicki on their “subvertising” projects using existing billboard and bus shelter car ads.
brandalism.ch/projects/adbrake-car-subvertising/

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