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  • Why Should I Care

    A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets.

    Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook.

    Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous “Boulevard of Death,” Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a “Boulevard of Life” after her son Asif was killed on his bike there.
    p2a.co/hHWt2A4

    5 year old Zachary was killed by a car in a crosswalk in Berkeley, California. “Grandma” Beverly Shelton founded Families for Safe Streets Southern California, and her son, Dr. Frank Cruz, founded The Zachary Michael Cruz Foundation.
    www.facebook.com/zmcfoundation/?ref=page_internal

    48:35-Lindsay’s interview with Dutch traffic engineer Dick Van Veen
    www.dickvanveen.nl/en/

    Edited by Kevin Burton

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  • Biking Good and Bad

    The founder of Pedal People, Ruthy Woodring, talks trash and bike repair.
    Chicago Family Biking founder Rebeccah Resman and Streetsblog editor John Greenfield on the killing of a 3 year old on her mother’s bike in a street with a bike lane.
    chi.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/fema…nway-in-uptown/
    www.chicagofamilybiking.org/

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  • Transportation Futurist

    Robin Chase, Executive Chairwoman of New Urban Mobility and founder of Zipcar, among other roles, talks about the future of bikes with Bike Talk co-host Andrea Learned.

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  • Scott Epstein for La Cd5 From a Northampton Point of View

    Scott Epstein is an active transportation progressive running for the powerful position of Council District 5 representative in Los Angeles. In this interview with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols, Scott lays out his priorities: ending homelessness, addressing the Los Angeles housing/affordability crisis, and taking local action on climate change. Epstein is able to connect all these with active transportation. George Kohout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails in Western Massachusetts, provides an East Coast perspective on Scott’s candidacy.Edited by Kevin Burton.scottforla.com/meet-scottfntrails.org/about/directors/

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  • All Biking Is Local

    A ribbon cutting for the new segment connecting Pittsfield to Adams along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Western Massachusetts.www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/Sta…-Extension.html47:00Butch Flowers, a farmer and handyman in the hill towns of Massachusetts, on his plan to ride from Portland to Massachusetts this summer.

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  • Bikeways Ca Legislation Nyc Open Street Mass Rail Trail

    Bikeways, active transportation, climate change, and safe streets with Laura Friedman, California state Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, in conversation with Dave Snyder, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California.
    a43.asmdc.org/

    New York City’s Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mile stretch where “vehicles are guests” on five-mile-per-hour shared streets.
    Jim burke, co-Founder of the 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition , talks to Carl Mahaney of Streetopia Upper West Side.
    nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/04/28/34th…led-paseo-park/

    Berkshire Bike Path advocates, elected officials, and the Massachusetts DOT showed up to inaugurate a 1.5 mile section of the Ashuwillticook rail trail in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

    Nick Russo, a bike and pedestrian Planner with Berkshire regional planning commission, served coffee on an e-trike.
    www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/Sta…-Extension.html

    Edited by Kevin Burton

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  • Car Freedom

    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

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    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/

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    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

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  • Biking Northampton Mass Is No 1 and Twitters Excuses for Not Biking

    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/

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    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

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    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

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  • 041722 Bike Talk

    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/

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    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/

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    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.

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    “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

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  • Safe Streets Viral Tweets Bike Summiting and Crank Hustling

    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.

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