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Car Freedom

May 1, 2022

Kicking off Bike Month and new car-free days on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. With Galen Mook, Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition
baystatebikemonth.org
Massbike.org

2:15
They know in the Netherlands that making streets safe means controlling cars. Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy Communications Manager and author of Building the Cycling City and Curbing Traffic, tells Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman what they know in the Netherlands. Part Two.

Edited by Kevin Burton.
dutchcycling.nl/en/

29:55
The Northeast Los Angeles Eagle Rock community’s Beautiful Boulevard plan for the Noho to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit system was approved in a win for livability. With Michael Macdonald, Eagle Rock activist.
la.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/metr…k-and-pasadena/
www.eaglerockforward.org/

43:28
Car Free JFK Drive in San Francisco, A Victory
-With Stacy Rendecker, @drivingmzstacey
sf.streetsblog.org/2022/04/26/hurr…menade-forever

brt, cycling, livability, netherlands
Biking Northampton Mass Is No 1 and Twitters Excuses for Not Biking

April 24, 2022

Elena Huisman, a voice for bicycle infrastructure with “Main Street for everyone” and “Safe Streets Northampton,” talks about bike events, benefits, politics, infrastructure, and biking safely in Northampton, Massachusetts.
mainst4everyone.org/

8:45
Galen Mook and Ken McLeod discuss Massachusetts’ new #1 Bicycle Friendly State ranking with the League of American Bicyclists. Ken is the League’s Policy Director, and Galen is Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition.
www.massbike.org/
www.bikeleague.org/content/new-202…s-massachusetts

28:15
Lava Sunder, Los Angeles car-free cyclist, and Dan Federman, San Francisco car-free cyclist, on the reasons people on Twitter give for why they can’t bike.
twitter.com/LavanyaSunder/statu…1516085689737269248
twitter.com/TheFederman/status/150791361651883213

bikefriendly, infrastructure, massachusetts, northampton
041722 Bike Talk

April 17, 2022

Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cycling Federation, on her advocacy for biking and reducing oil dependency in Europe–with cohost Lindsay Sturman.
ecf.com/

18:48
Chris Bruntlett, co-author of “Building the Cycling City” and “Curbing Traffic” and Communications Manager for the Dutch Cycling Embassy, talks with Lindsay Sturman about how reducing car speed is essential to bikeability.
www.dutchcycling.nl/en/

29:30
There’s a competition to design artistic bike racks in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Holyoke Bike Ped Committee Chair Shannon Bliven, Director of Planning and Economic Development Aaron Vega, and Senior Project Manager of Holyoke Planning and Economic Development Office Ileana Carrion tell about it–with cohost and Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Galen Mook.

46:20
“Bicycle Benefits” incentivizes biking with discounts for those who show up at participating businesses; with Founding Director Ian Klepetar.
bicyclebenefits.org/

Edited by Kevin Burton

bicycle, ecf, netherlands, planning
Safe Streets Viral Tweets Bike Summiting and Crank Hustling

April 10, 2022

The Bike Summit and how the climate movements needs to wake up about (e)bikes with Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists and Galen Mook, cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition:www.bikeleague.org/13:29Emily stein, president of Safe Roads Alliance, on Global Road Safety Week Relay ride/walk/run across Massachusetts-www.saferoadsalliance.org/22:44 Wilcer/William Cervantes, founder of Crank Hustle, a food delivery support organization; with Ali Lexa, KPFK Web Director/Crank Hustle-er.crankhustle.com/40:40 Andrew de Frank and Rihanna of Twitter on their viral Protected Bike vs. Traffic lane tweet:twitter.com/KrillTusk/status/1506629702580113414Edited by Kevin Burton.

bikesummit, climate, crankhustle, music, safety, SoundCloud
Ebike Vouchers Transportation vs Recreation and Healthy Streets

April 5, 2022

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 Genevieve Cerda promote the first in series of 3 “Bike Salons” to make LA more bikeable, with Pure Luck Cycles CoFounder/CEO and LACBC Board Treasurer Michael Fishman, and Santa Monica Spoke President and CoFounder Cynthia Rose. The Salon will encourage attendees to support the HealthyStreetsLA initiative.
www.la-bike.org/
www.healthystreetsla.com/
With LA Bicycle Advisory Committee representative/Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.
Edited by Kevin Burton.

bikesalon, ebikes, healthystreetsla, lacbc
Bikeways for All

March 20, 2022

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 about inclusive cycling and ebikes.the2wheeledwolf.blogspot.com/Tab Combs and Kate Rosen discuss their viral bike tweets.twitter.com/KRDemCTtwitter.com/DrTCombsEdited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, bikeways, infrastructure, multimodal, music, SoundCloud
Safe Streets in Western Mass San Diego and Online

March 18, 2022

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 been advocating for immediate improvements to bike infrastructure using “quick builds.” Laura has some thoughts about the protected bike lane debates she’s been seeing.Laura talks with “Grandma” Beverly Shelton of Southern California Families for Safe Streets, whose course as a safe streets advocate was set when her grandson, Zachary, was killed by a negligent driver in 2009.www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/st…sts-safetyblog.aarp.org/livable-communitie…rotect-pedestrians@ 45:00, Eso Eco of San Francisco interviews Ben Fryman of Portland and Halima Maadow of Maryland on loony bikelash and bike fashion.twitter.com/PGon2wheelstwitter.com/BFrybacktwitter.com/esoxeneco

bicycle, infrastructure, multimodality, music, safety, SoundCloud
Estonia Los Angeles Arlington

March 6, 2022

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 vision of what the city could be like if we provided people-centered infrastructure,” their “Sunset For All” campaign, and developing a “street advocacy playbook and training academy.”
www.la-bike.org/

@41:07:

Petru Sofio, a Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition intern, was a traffic and bike lane prodigy, drawing maps of his neighborhood streetlights as a child. Executive Director of MassBike Galen Mook enlisted Petru in the campaign for a safer Arlington, Mass. intersection. Petru talks with Galen.
twitter.com/PetruSofio
www.massbike.org/

Edited by Kevin Burton

advocacy, bicycle, mobility, transportation
Bike Los Angeles and Biketwitter

February 27, 2022

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 Times editorial writer Kerry Kavanaugh on her Healthy Streets LA article about the ballot measure to force the city to implement its own mobility plan: www.latimes.com/opinion/story/202…d-make-it-binding
-with cohost Don Ward.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, mobility, music, safety, SoundCloud, transportation
Healthy Streets and the Idaho Stop

February 20, 2022

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, aka BikeSnobNYC, the influential bike culture blogger, Outside Magazine columnist, and book author, about why the “Idaho Stop–” cyclists treating stop signs like yield signs and stoplights like stop signs– is safe, sensible, and should be legal nationwide.
bikesnobnyc.com/

bicycle, multimodal, safety, SoundCloud, transportation