Category: Blog
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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…
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#2540 The Deadly Status Quo
Ride For Your Life is a Washington, D.C. memorial ride in honor of Sarah Langenkamp, whose husband, Dan, worked to pass a law protecting cyclists in her name after she was killed riding in a bike lane. Taylor talks to Dan Langenkamp (2:04). After Bike Talk thinker Stacey Randecker was hit while riding, we asked…
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#2537 – Validation
Listener emails in response to last episode’s bike lane hater from Eric Brightwell, host of the Nobody Drives in LA podcast and Ross, a West Hollywood vehicular cyclist who uses the street on which Bike Lane Hater does not want a lane (0:21). What are the legal implications for organizing a community bike ride, bike…
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#2536 – Answers.
Bike tours of Portland, Oregon by Cycle Portland, an interview of Charlotte by listener contributor Jonathan Weiss (1:26). A Love Letter to Suburbia is a new book on how car dependency, corporate control, and disintegrating community values have eroded the sense of connection and purpose that once defined American neighborhoods, and how to fix that…
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These Are The People in Your Neighborhood
Why, being flat and on Manhattan’s “doorstep,” is Long Island so resistant to all bike infrastructure? asks listener Sean Cirillo (0:53). West Hollywood bike lane opponent Kyle Brazil debates Taylor about installing a bike lane on Fountain Avenue (6:13). The author of A Love Letter to Suburbia, Diane Alisa, has empathy for conservatives and suburban…
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#2533 Bikes Up
Vancouver bike activist Lucy Maloney won a seat on the anti- bike city council she fought for years. She gave Taylor a tour of the city and talks about her journey (2:24). Speed cameras will go up this year in Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, Long Beach, and the City and County of San…
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#2532 – Kids Ride Worldwide
Listener feedback: Rebecca Reilly wants Nick to pronounce “Ontario” correctly, and Rick Bosacker says we should talk more about biking’s mental and physical health benefits (0:50). Paris’ bike revolution from the POV of Bike Talk intern Charlie Leightheiser – bike lanes, bike share, and bikelash (4:27). It’s never too early to start planning for the…
