Category: Blog
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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…
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Bike Talk 2508 – Freedom to Bike
Taylor’s science-backed brush with car-induced unhappiness (0:22) New York City congestion pricing will resist Trump’s attempts to kill it, predicts NYC Transportation Alternatives Communications Director, Alexa Sledge (3:25). Maybe the NYC toll program would fare better if we labelled them “Congestion tariffs,” suggests Listener Rick Bosacker (10:35). Congestion Pricing, climate change, and the dire situation…
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#2507 – Cars make us unhappy
On vacation in Fraser, CO, “the ice box of America,” self-proclaimed “single track capital of the world,” Taylor talks track with Ben Quinn, owner of Ice Box Mountain Sports (2:08). Our friend, Los Angeles bike advocate, cyclocross racer, and survivor of the Eaton fire, Dorothy Wong, on rebuilding Los Angeles (5:23). A California court’s ruling…
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Bike Talk #2506 – Donald Shoup, Parking Reformer; 15 minute cities; bike books & movies
Donald Shoup, author of “The High Cost of Free Parking,” has died. Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, talks about Shoup’s decades of teaching, writing, and speaking on reversing subsidized free car storage (1:16). Find our interviews with Donald Shoup at biketalk.org. CalBike Joins Amicus Brief in Safe Streets Accountability Case after lower…
