Category: Blog
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#2518 NIMBYs, YIMBYs, QUIMBYs and Bike Comics
News: It’s Bike Month! Also- an Ontario, Canada court may save Toronto bike lanes, Waymo says its AVs are 25x safer than human drivers for cyclists and pedestrians on the road, Trump’s tariffs will devastate the bike industry, and Americans are losing interest in buying cars (1:47). The QUIMBY movement = Quality In My Back…
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#2517 Are You From Jersey?
Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, assesses the lawsuit brought by Streetsblog Los Angeles editor Joe Linton. LA Metro has argued that because it’s not the city, it doesn’t have to make bike infrastructure when repaving city streets, as called for in ballot measure HLA. The agency claims it would have to destroy homes and buildings to…
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#2516 – Up With Slow Streets, Crossings, and Infrasisters, Down With Crosswalk Creepers
Amy, gravel rider (1:05). News (3:04): Street safety advocates call for protected bike lanes on California’s deadly Pacific Coast Highway. The City of Sacramento will be the first in the Nation to use cameras on buses that detect cars parked in bike lanes. Austin, Tx is going to spend 80,000 to remove a two way…
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#2515 – Different Strokes
News: Healthy Streets LA, the ballot measure which requires Los Angeles to implement bike infrastructure every time city streets are repaved, is being ignored by the county’s transportation agency, LA Metro. Taylor talks with the founder of Streets For All, Michael Schneider, who led the HLA campaign, and the Editor of Streetsblog LA, Joe Linton,…
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#2514 – Bike Vessels and Arbitrary Lines
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Put the Phone Away or Pay” campaign emphasizes education and enforcement but not engineering. Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, shares his practice of suing distracted drivers as a deterrent (0:26). A driver was found guilty of Reckless Vehicular Homicide in the killing…
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#2513 – State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented LA, and Bike storage
Listener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean task of Omaha bike advocacy (1:40). #Teslatakedown (2:45). The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would remediate the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division…
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Strong Towns and Fault Lines
Tesla’s polluting plants, Musk’s racist genealogy and the #Teslatakedown (1:53). Since our new regime is anti-active transportation, we check in with Charles Marohn, Strong Towns founder and author of Strong Towns, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, and Escaping the Housing Trap, for a reminder of what we can do locally to make towns more bikeable…
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Bike Talk #2511 No Autocracy, yes BRT & Bike Share
Ontario’s reactionary re-elected Premier, Doug Ford, aims to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes despite his own experts’ testimony that they work. Our correspondent Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher on the view from Toronto (2:31). The US DOT halts all active transportation funding that might reduce emissions or improve accessibility. James Pocrass, Los Angeles Bike Lawyer, gives his view.…
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#2510 Bike as Sport or Culture War Flashpoint
Taylor’s day of service fixing bikes and teaching kids how to ride safely with Brett Atencio-Thomas, Active Costa Mesa, California’s Transportation Coordinator. Brett tells about the Three Pronged approach to making a 21st century city (0:38). On February 25th, a group of cyclists in Boyle Heights were handing out “Know Your Rights” cards with information…
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Bike Talk #2509 – The Firecracker, a Vigil, an Icon, and Two Directors
LA Locals Taylor & Don saw the city like tourists on an Ebike Tour of Hollywood (0:22). Bike Director Kevin Wong on Chinatown’s March 8-9 Firecracker Ride, the largest Lunar New Year Run, Walk, Cycling, and Dog Walk event in the US (4:59). Bike Indianapolis Advocacy Committee Chair Jakob Morales on the recent vigil and…
