Category: Blog
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Bike Wars
5:13 on.soundcloud.com/mJcC1Bike Wars: Seamus Garrity interviews Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider on Los Angeles’s misleading claims about its progress towards Mobility Plan 2035, and the ballot measure that would force the city to implement its plan. la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/13/asto…-mobility-plan/ 22:26 on.soundcloud.com/Kj2sxDriver Lobby: Toronto Star Journalist Matt Elliot counters anti-bike bad faith arguments with…
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Vision Zero and the Bicycle Future
2:33 on.soundcloud.com/gjUubViolence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city’s pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team. 21:59 on.soundcloud.com/nW5ByLives Above All Else: Columbus, Ohio is on board…
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Bike Infrastructure and Carfreedom
1:00 on.soundcloud.com/aUw3uThis is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass…
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Changes
2:24 on.soundcloud.com/ocg3pWild at Heart: A girl tames a big-kid bike in “Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike,” by bestselling children’s book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story. 19:44 on.soundcloud.com/7e3vNNo Time For Losers: Pittsfield’s City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on…
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Summit
1:19.70 on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an “adjacent” Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride’s sponsors. 16:01…
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Advocacies
1:29 on.soundcloud.com/uxcQ3Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost…
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Bike Authors and the Bike Brigade
2:00 on.soundcloud.com/LMwkXBike Lit: UK Professor Dr. Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black experience in cycling and his book, “Desire, Descrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling,” with Nick Richert 30:15 on.soundcloud.com/6oZStRiding in Their Footsteps: David Goodrich on his book, “On Freedom Road,” about his bike tour along the route of the Underground Railroad, his blog, www.crazyguyonabike.com/, and…
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34th Ave Housing and Transportation in Sf National Bike Summit
Transcript: bit.ly/3Zc52em 1:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/92anJGold Standard: Queens’ 34th Avenue open street is the open street other open streets try to emulate. Jim Burke, a 34th Ave Volunteer Leader, talks to Nick Richert.10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/oiwXeIntersection: Open streets and housing in San Francisco with Robin Pam, Parent Organizer and Founder at Kid Safe SF, and Annie Fryman, Director of Special…
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Slow Streets Please
Transcript: bit.ly/3n6xEIF 1:02 on.soundcloud.com/kzP8kAdvocates’ roundabout: A forum of people fighting for protected bike lanes, with Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley for Hopkins, Lucy Maloney in Vancouver for Stanley Drive, and Ricardo Morales in Pittsfield for North Street. Also, Luke Bornheimer, San Francisco Advocate, for the website www.slowstreets.us/. Unedited roundtable: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-round-table-full?si=2973f883a3f6413ab37991c0a16ed3a5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 35:17https://on.soundcloud.com/QfjtYInterlude with Taylor, Nick, Seamus,…
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State of Emergence
Transcript: bit.ly/40mUafj Intro: Seamus and Don at the San Fernando Valley CicLAvia 0:52 on.soundcloud.com/vXEK4Counsel: Los Angeles’ City Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman at CicLAvia on biking, the need to get people out of cars, and what can get the LA City Council to implement the City’s mobility plan. With Seamus Garrity. 13:14 on.soundcloud.com/CFyTxBeautiful day:…
