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Summit

April 4, 2023

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Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an “adjacent” Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride’s sponsors.

16:01 on.soundcloud.com/VdXYe
Check it: at an Alleycat checkpoint in Washington, DC’s famous Blagden Alley, in front of the “Love” mural, volunteers Nick, Marina, and Lisa give away sponsored Dr. Bronner’s magic chocolate bars to riders who must take selfies. Volunteer Lisa Brady’s day job happens to involve Safe Routes to Schools, as well as being Board President of the Treasure Valley cycling Alliance in Boise, Idaho.

22:41 on.soundcloud.com/rUJCD
Growing fast: An Alleycat rider’s perspective on the ride resonates with history. Keshia Roberson, founder of Major Knox Adventures and presenter of They Were Seeds: The Buried Legacy of Black Wheelwomen at the National Bike Summit, interviews with Galen Mook.

26:47 on.soundcloud.com/ufUoV
Tour de Bike Lanes: commuters and tourists in a DC lane are treated as Tour de France racers by Cate Cohen, in honor of her husband, DC rider David Confer, who died of liver cancer.

29:26 on.soundcloud.com/8bNMG
After ‘cat: Galen Mook sums up the Alleycat and interviews Josh from Grand Rapids at the Alleycat afterparty.

33:16 on.soundcloud.com/9Ny9Q
Bike Troupe: The Agile Rascal Touring Theater’s performers and, sometimes, their audiences, incorporate bikes and riding in their shows. Dara Silverman, Artistic Director, unpacks at the Summit closing reception.

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Representing: At the Summit’s closing reception Earl Blumenauer, Congressional Representative of Portland, Oregon and founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, focused on this moment in bike advocacy.

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Joining the Club: Northampton, Massachusetts bike champions Adele Paquin and Ruthy Woodring reflect on their new afterschool bike club at JFK Middle School as the semester comes to an end.

43:41 on.soundcloud.com/Wx9Dx
Book in Soweto: Bicycle Entrepreneur Mpumi Mtintso organizes Tour de Libraries and historical bike tours in the township of Soweto, South Africa.

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Advocacies

March 31, 2023

1:29 on.soundcloud.com/uxcQ3
Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity to talk about their new coalition, Our Streets Action Committee. bit.ly/3Ko1sJT

40:40 on.soundcloud.com/W6hRG
Comparative Advocacy: San Diego County and Massachusetts’ face different challenges for bike advocacy. Galen Mook, Executive Director of MassBike, and Will Rhatigan, Advocacy Director of the San Diego Bicycle Coalition, compare and contrast.

55:38 on.soundcloud.com/KUxuU
Bike Joy: Taylor Nichols asks two women about their Bromptons.

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Bike Authors and the Bike Brigade

March 21, 2023

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Bike Lit: UK Professor Dr. Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black experience in cycling and his book, “Desire, Descrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling,” with Nick Richert

30:15 on.soundcloud.com/6oZSt
Riding in Their Footsteps: David Goodrich on his book, “On Freedom Road,” about his bike tour along the route of the Underground Railroad, his blog, www.crazyguyonabike.com/, and his climate science, with Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and Bike Talk cohost Galen Mook.

45:45 on.soundcloud.com/vK2nG
To the rescue: the Bike Brigade brings food and medical supplies to people in need in Toronto. Jonathan Gruber-Benaich, Campaign Lead, talks with Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher.

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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34th Ave Housing and Transportation in Sf National Bike Summit

March 16, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3Zc52em

1:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/92anJGold Standard: Queens’ 34th Avenue open street is the open street other open streets try to emulate. Jim Burke, a 34th Ave Volunteer Leader, talks to Nick Richert.10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/oiwXeIntersection: Open streets and housing in San Francisco with Robin Pam, Parent Organizer and Founder at Kid Safe SF, and Annie Fryman, Director of Special Projects with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, by Seamus Garrity.48:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/U55pwSummit: Bike advocates and planners will converge on Washington, D.C. for the League of American Bicyclists’ 23rd annual National Bike Summit March 26-29. Seamus Garrity interviews Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League.Editing by Kevin Burton.Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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Slow Streets Please

March 7, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3n6xEIF

1:02 on.soundcloud.com/kzP8k
Advocates’ roundabout: A forum of people fighting for protected bike lanes, with Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley for Hopkins, Lucy Maloney in Vancouver for Stanley Drive, and Ricardo Morales in Pittsfield for North Street. Also, Luke Bornheimer, San Francisco Advocate, for the website www.slowstreets.us/.

Unedited roundtable: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-round-table-full?si=2973f883a3f6413ab37991c0a16ed3a5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Interlude with Taylor, Nick, Seamus, Lindsay

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Better with bikes: BikeLA’s 2023 Bicycle Safety Report finds, among other things, that everyone’s safer on a street with protected bike lanes. With BikeLA’s Executive Director Eli Akira Kaufman and Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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State of Emergence

February 28, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/40mUafj

Intro: Seamus and Don at the San Fernando Valley CicLAvia

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Counsel: Los Angeles’ City Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman at CicLAvia on biking, the need to get people out of cars, and what can get the LA City Council to implement the City’s mobility plan. With Seamus Garrity.

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Beautiful day: Metrics of success at CicLAvia in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, with Tafarai Bayne, CicLAvia’s Chief Strategist. By Seamus Garrity.

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Origin story: How a volcano may have inspired the invention of the bicycle, with Lindsay Sturman and Seamus Garrity.

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Culture: Although France is thought of, rightly, as surpassing countries like the U.S. in bike and safe streets infrastructure, rural roads can be unsafe for cyclists. Recovering engineer Charles Marohn and Beate Kubitz, a new resident of Feuilla, France, discuss the need to create cycling culture in rural areas.

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911: A state of emergency has been declared in Carlsbad, California because of rising cyclist deaths. Taylor Nichols discusses the issue with Del Mar Times reporter Luke Harold and San Diego Bicycle Coalition Advocacy Director Will Rhatigan. www.delmartimes.net/news/story/2022…cycle-accidents

48:50 on.soundcloud.com/4rPGA
Visualize it: The U.S. Department of Transportation has released new charts showing the cities with most and least traffic fatalities per capita, a departure from the USDOT’s more car-centric metric of traffic deaths per vehicle mile travelled. Streetsblog USA Editor Kea Wilson unpacks the data. twitter.com/streetsblogkea/stat…1623753663863717889

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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Love the Lane

February 21, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3JWrQKS

Intro: Nick, Seamus, and Taylor introduce San Franciscan Luke Bornheimer, who recently started the slow streets resources website at www.slowstreets.us/. Also, Seamus’ celebrity encounter with Mayor John Bauters.

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Active TO: The longest street in the world, Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, has a world class complete street portion that was made permanent on February 8. Yonge 4 All spokesperson Robin Richardson tells Bike Talk guest host Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher why they won. www.yonge4all.ca/

17:45 on.soundcloud.com/LgByv
Inactivated: Stanley Park Drive’s great protected lane in Vancouver, Canada will be removed due to demands for two lanes of car traffic in the city’s world class Stanley Park. Lucy Mahoney tells the story.
lovethelane.ca/

30:37 on.soundcloud.com/XhYUd
Representing: Pittsfield, Massachusetts’ pilot protected bike lane came up for a vote on Valentine’s Day. 90 year old Barbara Mahoney used her own example as a user of the calmed street to support the project.

36:31 on.soundcloud.com/2oCbM
No Choice: Walk Bike Berkeley is asking Berkeley, California to prioritize kids over cars by making Hopkins a complete street. Karen Parolek and Ben Gerhardstein fill us in.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/petiti…lking-and-biking

47:20 on.soundcloud.com/k4vmJ
Connected: The intersection of housing and active transportation infrastructure by LA Times journalist Liam Dillon in an interview with cohost Seamus Garrity.

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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Engagement

February 14, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3yWgK1V

Intro: Seamus, Lindsay, Nick and Taylor

1:06
Burbank Does Bike: Councilmember Nikki Perez, who ran a progressive urbanist campaign and received more votes than any CM in Burbank’s history, on engaging communities in active transportation – with Seamus Garrity.

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Taking the Lane: The anti-bike lane drivists of Pittsfield, Massachusetts want to rip the protected bike lane pilot out of the heart of their city. Nick Russo and the safe streets champions won’t yield. www.pittsfieldcommunity.design/

Learned Advocacy: Climate advocacy podcaster Andrea Learned on how to build social capital and sustain networks online and in real life, with guest cohost and former Culver City Mayor Alex Fisch. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sust…i=1000596831970

Radicalized by Bike: Adam Johnston on his politics-changing bike commute in Winnipeg.

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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Kyiv Boston Boise Los Angeles

February 7, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3Z6S3L1

Intro: Taylor Nichols, Seamus Garrity, and Nick Richert

0:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/kKbcR
Safe? No. Why? Cars: Dr. Anne Lusk talks to Seamus Garrity about her article, “Is cycling safe? In many cases, the answer is no,” in the Harvard Gazette.

22:07 on.soundcloud.com/oJc9R
Bikes4Ukraine: Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize, talks from Kyiv with Seamus about his project to get used bikes from Western Europe to the front lines in Ukraine.

40:11 on.soundcloud.com/fZnEC
Bikes4Ukrainians in the USA: The Boise Bicycle Project, which provides access to refurbished bicycles for the Boise community, gave over 50 bikes to Ukrainian refugees last Martin Luther King Day. Seamus talks with Devin McComas, Programs Director of the Boise Bicycle Project.

56:11 on.soundcloud.com/Cj6vY
Ride for Year of the Rabbit: This Year of the Rabbit Firecracker Ride/Run/Walk/Dogwalk is February 18. Lisa Goldfarb gives Taylor a preview. firecracker10k.org/bike

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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How to Stop Traffic Violence

January 31, 2023

Transcript: bit.ly/3LIdy1z

Intro: Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols share their audio and thoughts from the January 21 Die-in to protest traffic deaths at Los Angeles City Hall. With Seamus Garrity.
la.streetsblog.org/2023/01/23/safe…traffic-deaths/

12:24 on.soundcloud.com/Wh3yu
Getting Through: Damian Kevitt, founder of Streets Are For Everyone, on why traffic violence incidents are not accidents, and the story of the hit and run that changed his life, along with the face of Los Angeles safe streets advocacy. With Taylor Nichols.

25:04 on.soundcloud.com/Z474k
A Vision: Miriam Pinski on her latest LA Times Op Ed, “Here’s how to prevent pedestrian traffic deaths in Los Angeles.” https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-21/los-angeles-traffic-deaths-pedestrians-drivers-reckless-intersections

34:28 on.soundcloud.com/PQMGK
It’s The Law: Massachusetts’ new law, An Act to Reduce Traffic Fatalities, defines the term “Vulnerable Road User,” requires 4’ safe passing distance and safety devices for trucks, allows slower speed limits to be set, develops a tool to report crashes, and introduces a rear red light requirement on bikes. Massachusetts State Senator William Brownsberger explains how the law was passed. With Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Galen Mook, and Galen’s WMBR Bike Talk co-host Scott Mullen.

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, “Just Moving,” by Don Ward.
Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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