Category: Blog
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Winter Riding
Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bicycle co-op in Boston, Mass., on winter riding. Galen Mook, co-founder of Common Wheels and Executive Director of Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, on Updating Massachusetts’ hands free law to include apps like Facetime. www.commonwheels.org/ With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling…
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Space for Co Ops
Steve Campos on cleaning Northeast Los Angeles’ seminal bike co-op, the Bike Oven, after years of dysfunction. Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bike co-op in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. Luis Fernandez on finding a new space for the Bike Kitchen in Dorchester, another Boston neighborhood. Amber Drea, a Streetsblog Chicago reporter, on…
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Bike Minds
Lindsay Sturman interviews Maurits Lopes Cardozo, a designer of solutions for bicycle networks at Bike Minded; Chase Engelhardt, Policy Analyst & Organizer with Climate Resolve; and Laura Shepherd, an organizer for Transportation Alternatives in New York City. Edited by Kevin Burton
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World Day of Remembrance
On the 2021 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Babs Owca, with Half Acre Cycling, remembers fellow rider Adé Hogue, whose death by car and subsequent ghost bike vigil brought traffic to a standstill in Chicago. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2021/11/03/during-ghost-bike-vigil-100s-of-mourners-occupied-intersection-where-ade-hogue-was-killed/ “Grandma Beverly” Shelton tells the story of her 5 year old grandson, who was killed in…
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Brett and Roland Bike Talk Audioedited 1
The combination of bikes and public transit with Netherlands “bike train guru,” Roland Kager www.dutchcycling.nl/en/network/memb…em/roland-kager and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles Metro www.metro.net/riding/bike-transit/. Lindsay Sturman, Bike Talk cohost, interviews. Edited by Kevin Burton. bikes transit
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25×25 and Massbike
The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. + Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston’s Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle. Edited by Kevin Burton.
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Active Transportation Strategy and Windshield Bias
Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy.www.ciclavia.org/Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen “Coal-rolled” a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or…
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Fear and Open Streets
Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot. Edited by Kevin Burton.
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Mayor Helps on Bikes
Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, “complete streets plus,” and how Victoria’s City Council “just built it.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s
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Pending Active Transportation Legislation in California
Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk: AB 43: Allow lower speed limits AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields AB 773: Making slow streets permanent AB 1238: Repealing jaywalking laws Edited by Kevin Burton.
