Category: Blog
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#2550 Weakest Link
Vehicular cycling and Aaron Swanson of League of American Bicyclists’ League Certified Instructor‘s most recent graduating class in Los Angeles (4:15). Charlie’s News- Streetsblog NYC article on everything wrong with anti Astoria bike lane ruling; are AVs like Waymo cyclists’ allies? Indianapolis plows bike lanes for first time; NJ bill would require license and insurance…
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#2549 Moral Panic On Ebikes
Our Mission Statement, reviews, a listener email, and please take our survey!(0:19) Charlie’s News: New bike lanes in Boston increase bike trips and decrease car traffic; Astoria, Queens rips up a partially installed bike lane due to bikelash; Iowa City free bus ridership and service is up, emissions down; FSA/HSA pre-tax $ can be put…
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#2548 Bike Rights
Bike books for Christmas-with the editors of Microcosm’s “They Ride at Night” anthology of Queer, Feminist, Fantastical Bicycle Halloween Stories, Summer Jewel Keown and Elly Blue (3:36). Queens City Couriers delivers anything by bike in Buffalo, New York. Rebecca tells us about that, a bike messenger memorial, and how being a bike courier compares to…
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#2547 What Works
The most recent Los Angeles CicLAvia’s 11/23 “Stranger Things” open street event was made possible by Netflix (0:18). Katie Wilson’s election as Mayor of Seattle through a bike lens with Brie Gyncild, Gordon Padelford and Merlin Rainwater of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and Tom Fucoloro, editor of Seattle Bike Blog (8:25). News: LYFT’s Citibike in NYC…
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#2546 Bikes For All
Taylor bikes in the rain to LA Bikefest to talk with LA Bicycle Advisory Committee’s car-free Jennifer Gill and to World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims with Rob Kadota and Streets Are For Everyone founder Damian Kevitt (2:08). News: LA City Controller makes an app where you can see the where LA budget goes,…
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#2545 Bikes Win
Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get behind (3:11). Charlie’s News: The City of Malibu approves safety plans for deadly PCH, a Queens, NY City Council seat is kept by…
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#2544 Reform the System
Emails: the bike life of musical director Tim Dyet and Steve Weyland’s counsel to not blame delivery apps for lawbreaking ebikers in NYC (congratulations NYC by the way) (1:58). Faulty bike infrastructure and a drunk driver blamed for deaths of cyclists Kerry Bonner, 25, and Egor Popov, 31 at Vigil and response by Patty Wiens,…
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#2543 Ebikelash
Charlie’s News: NYC sets a 15mph limit on ebikes, a new Seattle bike lane also works for trucks, ultralight emergency response cargo bikes, and the impact of tariffs on the bike industry (3:00). A No Drive Halloween campaign (4:26). Ontario, Canada Premier Doug Ford is trying to ban speed cameras and bike lanes in an…
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#2542 Cycling Solidarity
Bike Talk Listener Survey (0:23) People on bikes are “Nature’s Most Efficient Traveler,” reveals Scientific American (1:42) Charlie’s News: League of American Bicyclists’ Advocacy Toolkit, Calbike’s Independent Electric Mobility Council, and Portland’s emergency World Naked Bike Ride (3:43). MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson calls the World Naked Bike Ride “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet,”…
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#2541 Countering Car Culture
Bike tech: Dynamo lights and pocket compressors (0:19). Charlie’s News (4:21). Two authors on what we’ve lost by making kids car dependent: author of A Love Letter to Suburbia Diane Alisa interviews co-author of Curbing Traffic Melissa Bruntlett on her chapter, The Child-Friendly City (6:51). The delights of a Slovenian bike tour with Hour Away…
