Category: Blog
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Supporting Roles
IntroSeamus, Nick and Taylor preview today’s stories. 1:44 on.soundcloud.com/xmoyUWho’s Dying: Streets Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) found that Los Angeles traffic violence killed 309 people in 2022, an increase of five percent from the previous year and 28 percent over 2020. They’re holding a Die-In at City Hall next Saturday. Lindsay Sturman interviews Damian Kevitt, S.A.F.E.…
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When We Fight We Win
IntroSeamus, Galen, Taylor, and Nick preview today’s stories. 2:48 on.soundcloud.com/CgttmBike Priority: San Francisco’s California State Senator Scott Wiener on why we need but don’t have complete networks of bike lanes, and the unfortunate car-centricity of society. With Seamus Garrity and Stacey Randecker. 19:19 on.soundcloud.com/ENWXDBike Share Unite: The Unionization of Los Angeles Metro Bike Share workers…
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Year in Review
Transcript: otter.ai/u/hOrsm6H1fzhBLr0YgxF7c-AbD9A Intro 1:47 on.soundcloud.com/P7GpDGood, Bad, and Ugly: Streetsblog Los Angeles Editor Joe Linton wraps up Los Angeles transportation for 2022. 28:14 on.soundcloud.com/yKQ4gDuty Calls: Bike Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, Vivian Ortiz explains her role to Massachusetts Bike Coalition Executive Director Galen Mook. 38:38 on.soundcloud.com/ksBG1Bikes on the Way: Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for Haiti in Northampton,…
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Happy Holidays
IntroTaylor Nichols and Nick Richert 1:41 on.soundcloud.com/mVj9pMixed Holidays: Christmas Wishes, recorded by Lynn Ingram at the Mixed Race ride. 3:33 on.soundcloud.com/JGZ2gFresh Start: Hugo Soto-Martinez talks with Bike Talk host Seamus Garrity about becoming the new Los Angeles Council District 13 representative, and his recent groundbreaking motion for better streets. 18:10 on.soundcloud.com/rgyVFAll Access: All Bodies on…
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Mode Shift
STARTIntro 2:17 on.soundcloud.com/uJzbWSlow Down: In a victory for people who use their own power to move, San Francisco organizers got slow streets made permanent. Taylor Nichols interviews Robin Pam of KidSafeSF, Jess Jenkins and Molly Hayden of Page Slow Street, and Sara Barz of Slow Hearst. 19:49 on.soundcloud.com/PciLHIt’s Healthy: Public Health researcher Isabella Chu discusses…
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A Piece of the Pie
STARTIntro with Taylor Nichols, LA City District 5 Bicycle Advisory Committee Representative. 3:03 on.soundcloud.com/zBSL1Bike Strike: Alejandra Rios and Nick Stewart-Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles academic workers, on the use of the bicycle as an organizing tool in their ongoing labor strike. 12:13 on.soundcloud.com/Q3G3EBike Club Grads: Edwin and Ryan, members of the recently founded…
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Streets Are for People
STARTIntro: Lindsay Sturman, Taylor Nichols, and Nick Richert 3:25 on.soundcloud.com/vxvXGRoads Kill: Emily Badger on her viral NY Times Article, “The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths,” and how American Foreign Service agents are more likely to be killed by cars at home than overseas. Taylor Nichols interviews. 32:52 on.soundcloud.com/RcB8ECatch-22: Miriam Pinsky on her article…
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Eye Opening Eye Opening
STARTGlobal Connections: At Bike Lab, a DIY workshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for projects in Trinidad and Haiti. 8:47 on.soundcloud.com/HppWEBFF: The Bicycle Film Festival’s Founding Director, Brendt Barbur, interviewed by Taylor Nichols. 27:33 on.soundcloud.com/27tvNWindshield Bias: NYC bicyclist lawyer Adam White tells how he was thrown in jail for removing a piece of…
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Inspire
STARTSchool Bus: a bike bus run by P.E. teacher Sam Balto in Portland, OR has been emulated and celebrated in social media. Interviews with Bus volunteers and Portland Bike Loud members Cathy Tuttle and Paul Buchanan. 10:51 on.soundcloud.com/f3CCjThe Oven Is Open: after years of hanging on by a thread, the Bicycle Oven collective of Northeast…
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Together
STARTHappy Trails: friends of non-Internal Combustion Engine transportation converged at the MassTrails conference last Saturday. MassBike E.D. Galen Mook interviews Namrit Kapur of HubLove.www.masstrailsconference.com/ 6:29 on.soundcloud.com/d8UzSAlmost here: Eli Kaufman on Fig for all’s years-long effort of making 3.2 miles of iconic Sunset blvd a 2-way protected bike lane, transforming the “high injury network” street into…
