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110620 Michael Schneider of Streets for Alls Post Election Update

November 6, 2020

Michael Schneider of Streets For All responds to the November 3, 2020 election.

music, nithya, SoundCloud, streets4all
103020 State of the La County Bicycle Coalition

November 5, 2020

Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the LA County Bicycle Coalition, speaks on the state of the agency, his thoughts on Ciclavia, what we should focus on in bike advocacy, and his growing love of the bicycle as an idea, and in reality.

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103020 Ciclavias Would Be 10th Anniversary

November 5, 2020

Tafarai Bayne, Ciclavia’s Chief Strategist, discusses the history, present, and future of Ciclavia, whose 10th anniversary was 10/10/20.
With Ciclavia Board member and proud attendees of the first Ciclavia Jennifer Gill (co-host), Meghan Sahli-Wells (Mayor of Culver City), and Wesley Reutimann, Special Programs Director of Active SGV.

activesgv, ciclavia, culvercity, music, SoundCloud
101720 Vol 5 This American Bike La Mobility Plan 2035

November 1, 2020

Michael Schneider, Founder of LA’s nonprofit Streets For All, speaks about how to get Los Angeles to implement its own Mobility Plan 2035, which includes an extensive network of protected bike lanes from the Valleys to Long Beach. S4A has condensed the over two hundred page plan to a single map: www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…BGPxy&usp=sharing

music, SoundCloud
090520 Brandalism and Streets for All

November 1, 2020

This American Bike Vol. 3 with Don Ward, Nick Richert, and Jennifer Gill
I.
Streets For All founder Michael Schneider on why Los Angeles can’t implement its own LA Mobility Plan 2035, and related topics.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…BGPxy&usp=sharing

II.
Peter Marcuse of the Brandalism cooperative with artist Michelle Tylicki on their “subvertising” projects using existing billboard and bus shelter car ads.
brandalism.ch/projects/adbrake-car-subvertising/

brandalism, lamobilityplan2035, music, SoundCloud, streetsforall
102320 Nithya 4 La and Santa Monicas New Protected Lanes

October 25, 2020

06:28-Nithya Raman, incandescent candidate for LA’s Council District 4, on homelessness, protected lanes, and the excitement of a local LA CD race people care about more than any in recent history. www.nithyaforthecity.com

25:34-Cynthia Rose, President of Santa Monica Spoke, talks about Santa Monica’s amazing new protected bike lanes: www.santamonica.gov/press/2020/10/1…z29_s02LlPZmw8o
With Colin Bogart, former LACBC Education Director, current Pasadena Complete Streets steering committee member and Day One Program Coordinator, and Ryan Mekenian, Director of The Spokespeople. vimeo.com/419346871

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092520 Dream Legal Mobility Justice and Black History Social Rides

October 22, 2020

0-Dave Snyder, Executive Director of CalBike, on the pandemic version of their annual fundraising Dream Ride.
www.cadreamride.org/

23:10-Ollie Oliver on how he pisses off drivers by riding his cargo bike legally nypost.com/…/bicyclist-pisse…everyone-off-by…/
twitter.com/Ollie_Cycles

49-Eric Ochoa contemplates a segment on route sharings.
twitter.com/Eric8a92

55:45-LA cyclist Lynn Ingram’s Woman on the Street update on riding in LA during the pandemic
www.facebook.com/lynningram777

101:27-“WE THE PEOPLE: BLACK LIVES ROLL’EN:” Yolanda Davis-Overstreet on the topic, “What’s Justice Got To Do With It?” with guests Channing Martinez, Director of Organizing Labor/Community Strategy Center and Producer of Voices from the Frontlines on KPFK/Pacifica Radio–twitter.com/fightsoulcities
www.facebook.com/busridersunion–
and Talib Abdullahi, Black History Bike Ride Organizer in Austin, TX–www.kut.org/post/keep-austins-r…e-hundreds-followed.

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100920 Better Cities

October 15, 2020

Nick and Don talk with Alexandria Contreras, candidate for Downey City Council District One (https://www.alexfordowney.com/). She’s working to unseat the pro-freeway Mayor of Downey, and speaks about the injustice (environmental, economic, and racial) of Metro and Caltrans’ planned removal of 200 homes to widen the 605 freeway. With LA Streetsblog editor Joe Linton.
Then-a rousing discussion about bike-related entries in the Better Cities Film Festival, open through 10/11 at https://bcff2020.eventive.org/welcome.
If you see one of the, please join our zoom
A 20% DISCOUNT CODE IS GIVEN to listeners for Bicycling & Cities (https://watch.eventive.org/…/play/5f50eb1e1537cc0045f6c25d)
Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet interviews Adé Neff, founder of Ride On! Bike Shop/Co-Op, a full-service worker-owned bike shop directly in the heart of South LA’s Leimert Park in her latest edition of We The People-Black Lives Roll ‘En.

alexfordowney, bcff, lametro, music, rideon, SoundCloud
0911 Bike Talk Dijon Kizee Sb 288 Uplift Melrose Down

October 10, 2020

0-
Deputy Public Defender and organizer with Ground Game (www.groundgamela.org/)Ace Kitano breaks down how cyclist Dijon Kizee was executed at the end of a string of events which began with a minor violation.

32:08-
Ca. State Senator Scott Weiner and Laura Friedman on their triumphant passage of SB 288, which exempts environmentally beneficial projects like bike lanes from costly and time consuming CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) requirements. This interview includes a heads up on the frightening, ignorant attacks on Weiner from Q-anon types for his closing of an antiquated anti-gay legal loophole.

1:01:07-
Michael Schneider of Streets For All summarizes his article on the backroom snuffing out of the inspirational Uplift Melrose project(medium.com/@michaelschneider_5…ngeles-11bbb952fd92), the incomplete streets views of some LA Council Members, and his virtual happy hour with LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds.

1:28:08-
Eric Ochoa’s Sports Report.

ceqa, dijonkizee, music, racialprofiling, sb288, SoundCloud
Sarah Pitts Cyclist Street Librarians

October 2, 2020

John Pitts talks about meaning in the death of his sister, Sarah Pitts, a 35-year-old prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA’s office who had just fallen in love with cycling when she was killed by a speeding charter bus. www.brooklynpaper.com/opinion-why-ju…-is-important/

(22:15) Jacob Bear and Jennifer Gill, Street Librarians, discuss the Street Librarians ride being postponed for the pandemic, Don’s career as a hypermile coach, and post-election nonsense; Jacob, a street biology teacher, lets us know about the problems with pavement.
www.facebook.com/groups/271114233293958

(40:24) Beth Allen suggests a Halloween ride on the Venice boardwalk.
www.facebook.com/beth.allyn.MsVenice

music, sarahpitts, SoundCloud, streetlibrarians, venicebike