Category: Blog
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Ending Car Supremacy Broadcast
:58 on.soundcloud.com/76wUvThe Price of Parking: Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar explains how parking ruins cities. With Taylor Nichols. 20:11 on.soundcloud.com/2KW2wLondon Calling: journalist and Spokesmen podcaster Carlton Reid on how London, like Paris, makes driving inconvenient, and why that’s necessary to increase bike, pedestrian, and transit modeshare, for a more liveable city. With Lindsay Sturman and…
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Bike Month Always
1:36 on.soundcloud.com/tqsbLHis Turf: John Jones III, East Side Riders President, at CicLAvia Mini. 5:00 on.soundcloud.com/P7mpZCritical Comeback: Vancouver’s conservative city council uses dedicated bike funds to remove a protected bike lane. In response, Vancouver’s Critical Mass has come back. With Lucy Maloney and Rob Zomber. 19:05 on.soundcloud.com/FVFKcWhat you don’t know: Tire particles emit more pollution than…
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Lives Above All
IntroBike Month happenings with Detroit Motown Trailblazers Founder Reo Ramsay, Los Angeles CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, and Berkshire Bike Path Council President Marjorie Cohan. With cohosts Seamus Garrity, Nick Richert, and Taylor Nichols. 18:10 on.soundcloud.com/xWmMoLife or Liberty: AB 645 would install speed cameras in California cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mobility advocates…
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Safety Bills the Joe Louis Greenway Bike Month
IntroBike Month: What’s happening May, Bike Month, in Santa Monica, Detroit, and Northampton, Massachusetts; cohosts Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert get a rundown with Cynthia Rose, Director of Santa Monica Spoke, Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, and Elena Huisman, Board Member of Friends of Northampton Trails. 15:19 on.soundcloud.com/YT5SKGreener Way: a…
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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…
