Category: Blog
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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…
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Parallel_politics
STARTOur Champions: an Assemblymember from urban Los Angeles and a Representative of a primarily small-town Massachusetts district are fighting for safe streets and biking in similar ways. California’s 43rd Assemblymember and Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman wrote the revolutionary legislation that ended parking minimums near transit in the state of Califlornia. If that weren’t enough,…
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Measures
STARTMassachusetts Bicycle Coalition E.D. Galen Mook on safe streets-related ballot questions 1 (the “Fair Share Amendment”) and 4 (driver licenses for undocumented immigrants) in the Massachusetts election. 2:18 on.soundcloud.com/3DJwQRoad Kill: Prop “J” would keep The Great Walkway and JFK Drive in San Francisco car free for community; Prop “I” would steal smiles from children. Zach…
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Were on a Roll
STARTStay Car Free: San Francisco will vote on whether to keep JFK Drive car free November 8th. Stacey Randecker interviews Prop J organizer Zachary Lipton.sf.streetsblog.org/2022/08/30/save…-n-and-no-on-i/ 2:05In Closing: Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin has been a friend to Los Angeles bikes and pedestrians. Bonin fought two recall efforts, one of which was over traffic calming he…
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The Future Is Here
STARTNo Free Parking: California reverses its policy on parking minimums, and parking reformer Tony Jordan is celebrating with Lindsay Sturman.parkingreform.org/los-angeles-party/ 11:25 on.soundcloud.com/Be13kFail to Plan, Plan to Fail: California Senator Anthony Portantino’s newly signed “Plan For The Future” law requires cities and counties to include bicycle and pedestrian plans, multimodal networks, and traffic calming for any urbanized…
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Chicago and Humanity
STARTLay it Out: Rony Islam and Daniel Streicher on Bike Grid Now’s tactics (Bike Jams, Bike Buses, Jamapalooza) and goal (10% of Chicago streets capped at 10mph).https://bikegridnow.org 20:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/mTkKmRip It Out: Michael Podgers, Jeremy Frisch, and Kyle Lucas of Better Streets Chicago on the plan for Lakeshore Drive, a highway on Lake Michigan. With Stacey…
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Other Peoples Podcasts and Will Bike 4 Food
STARTActivated: John Simmerman on producing his urbanism and healthy streets podcast, “Active Towns.”www.activetowns.org/articles/ 14:30Uh-Oh, Omaha: Sarah Johnson on Carfree Midwest, her “Omaha based podcast exploring the stories, barriers and joys of getting around the midwest without a car.” One barrier is the anti-bike Omaha Mayor ripping out the city’s only protected bike lane despite its…
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Victory
START Parallel Universe – MassBike E.D. and Cohost Galen Mook, a.k.a. Mookmaster Bikes, on the parallels in legislation between California and Massachusetts, plus the impact of “parking guru” Donald Shoup. Then- 7:27 Shoup’s On: Laura Friedman’s AB 2097 (now law) will “prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential,…
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Bikes
START:There’s an avalanche of new bike legislation on California Governor Newsom’s desk. California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry gives a reportback based on her article:cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/02/legi…safety-climate/ 26:08Mark Sanderson owned and staffed the East Lansing bicycle shop, Velocipede Peddler, for 45 years. Now he’s employed as a mechanic in the same space by the new owners, D&D Bicycles…
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Bike Perspectives
START: Adaptive Cycling: Western Massachusetts adaptive cyclists Naomi Clark and Giovanni Lynch talk with Berkshire Bike Path President Marjorie Cohan. 17:35 Bike Picture: Jerome Horne, Transit Center’s Director of Transit Leadership Development, on bikes in society, with Nick Richert. 33:30 Bike Innovator: Craig Calfee, a bike builder who pioneered carbon fiber and bamboo in bike…
