Category: Blog
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Ebike Vouchers Transportation vs Recreation and Healthy Streets
Connecticut’s SB4, a climate action bill, would give people vouchers to buy ebikes. Dr. Allie Thomas, an ebike researcher, supports it. planning.unc.edu/2021/10/e-biking…-and-caretakers/ @ 24:25-Warren Wells on his tweet about having to differentiate between recreation and transportation for bike trips: twitter.com/WarrenJWells/status…3MgzqsQ0pozuLl87d_g @ 36:18-The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition E.D. Eli Akira Kaufman and Senior Development Manager…
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Bikeways for All
California Assembly Bill 371 “would put most, if not all, shared micromobility systems out of business.” California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Dave Snyder talks about this threat and Calbike’s budget request for $500 million to implement connected, protected bicycle networks with cohost Taylor Nichols.www.calbike.org/calbike-opposes-ab-371/“2 Wheeled Wolf” blogger Wolf Simpson talks to cohost Sarah Dylan Bruer…
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Safe Streets in Western Mass San Diego and Online
Northampton, Massachusetts residents are organizing in the wake of Charlie Braun’s car killing. George Kahout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails, and Elena Huisman, with Main Street For Everyone, talk to Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition.mainst4everyone.org/fntrails.org/www.massbike.org/www.gazettenet.com/Driver-who-stru…harged-43390653Then, @ 27:00,Laura Keenan, whose husband, Matt, was killed by a distracted driver in September, has…
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Estonia Los Angeles Arlington
The Estonian ambassador to The Netherlands rides a bike as his official diplomatic vehicle. Lauri Kuusing talks about that and the impact of the Ukraine situation with Lindsay Sturman. twitter.com/LKuusing/status/149…x54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ @12:34: Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, talks to Taylor Nichols about the Healthy Streets LA initiative, which “provided a…
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Bike Los Angeles and Biketwitter
Los Angeles Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman and her Field Deputy Mehmet Berker on how they’re doing more for bikes than the rest of LA City Council (according to Streets For All). Read: la.streetsblog.org/2022/01/24/coun…infrastructure/ -with Lindsay Sturman, cohost. @ 19:55: @EmFriedenberg, @esoxeneco, and @JCRiecke on their viral tweets: twitter.com/EmFriedenberg/statu…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, twitter.com/esoxeneco/status/14…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, and twitter.com/JCRiecke/status/148…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ @40:00: LA…
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Healthy Streets and the Idaho Stop
Streets For All’s Founder Michael Schneider with cohost Taylor Nichols on why Los Angeles needs another safe streets nonprofit, and their campaign to force the city to implement its own mobility plan every time a street is repaved. www.healthystreetsla.com/ streetsforall.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton. @ 19:45- Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield talks with Eben Weiss,…
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Speed Red Light Camera Bias
A University of Chicago Illinois report found racial and ethnic disparities in who speed/red light cameras recorded breaking traffic laws. What can be done about it? Chicago Streetsblog co-editor John Greenfield interviewed UIC professors and authors of the report, Dr. Stacey Sutton and Dr. Nebiyou Tilahoun, for Bike Talk. John’s article on their report and…
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Nycs Delivery Workers Union and Bike Trains of the Pacific Northwest
Deliveristas Unidos organizes New York City bike delivery workers for a livable wage and the right to organize, in addition to some other basic protections. An organizer named Josh talks to Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director.Edited by Kevin Burton.Then-Megan Ramey of Hood River, Oregon talks about starting a bike train for parents dropping their kids…
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What Can a Mayor Do or a Mom
The Mayor of the City of Emeryville, California, John Bauters, campaigned on a platform that supported building affordable housing, expanding active transit infrastructure, and making Emeryville more sustainable and environmentally resilient.John bikes the talk on his 41 mile commute to Bay Area Air Quality Management District meetings, where he’s the Vice Chair.Melanie Curry, Editor of…
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Caltrans and Equiticity
CalTrans, California’s Department of Transportation, has been driver-centric until now, but with a new Complete Streets policy and active transportation advocates in the lead, it may be a new agency. CalTrans Deputy Director for Sustainability Tony Dang fields questions from Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell. With Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Then-the mobility…
