Category: Blog
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#2521 – Bikepacking, AVs versus Cyclists, MAGA versus Ebike Battery Standards, and Bike Bills in California
Janice Walrafen loves Bike Talk on WGDR in Vermont – a listener email (1:09). Summer bikepacking! Nick’s Berkshires tour and Taylor’s cross country plans (3:05). Are Waymo robotaxis safer than humans? And when AVs hit cyclists or pedestrians, who’s liable? Our lawyer, Jim Pocrass, advises (6:49). The Consumer Protection Safety Commission regulates bikes and bike…
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#2520 – Learn to Ride, Bike to Work, and the 100% Positive Results of NYC’s Congestion Pricing
Nick’s daughter Penny learns to ride on two wheels using the towel technique (1:50). Bike To Work Week with Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers in West Hollywood, Ca (7:33). Bike To Work Week in Northampton, Ma with Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra, Representative Lindsay Sabadosa, and All Bodies on Bikes organizer Jacob Sheppard-Saidel (11:44). The debate over…
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2519 – Judicial Defense of Bike Rights in Canada and California, Commuting in Minneapolis, and Bike Share in Los Angeles
Ontario Premier Doug Ford tried to remove Toronto’s bike lanes, but Toronto bike advocacy organization Cycle Toronto and allies won a court injunction pausing the removal. Executive Director Michael Longfield discusses what it means (2:42). The City of Oakland denied liability for a cyclist’s serious injuries due to bad pavement, arguing that the liability waiver…
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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…
