Taylor’s European bike interviews: Rome “didn’t get the memo” on safe streets for bicyclists, while Barcelona’s Superblocks are awesome as advertised. 1:14
Wes Marshall shatters the delusion that science underlies our transportation system in a new book, “Killed by a Traffic Engineer.” 12:50
Seattle gets its first protected, “Dutch-style” intersection; Winnipeg doesn’t. Boardmember of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways and co-leader of Queen Anne Greenways Mark Ostrow talks about Seattle bike advocacy’s long game with Winnipeg Bike Mayor and Board Director of Bike Winnipeg Patty Wiens. 39:06
Revolutionaries Jimmy Lizama, Meg Wachter, and AnneMarie Drolet at the Ride of Silence in Los Angeles. 3:22
A Great Tree Ride for Bike Week in Northampton, Mass. with All Bodies on Bikes’ Jacob Sheppard-Saidel, All Out Adventures’ Karen Foster, and Friends of Northampton Trails’ Elana Huisman. 9:31
Bike Touring in the U.S.A with Adventure Cycling Tours Operations Specialist Corbett Hall. 15:00
Taking on California’s Active Transportation Program Cuts in Sacramento with Jeanine Ward-Waller, Director of Transportation Advocacy at Fearless Advocacy. 32:05
A dawning awareness of deadly drivers in San Diego, with Brittany Bailey. 37:07
Pasadena’s Bike Month, with Day One’s Colin Bogart, Active Transportation Director of Day One Pasadena, and Jonah Kanner of the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition. 47:48
Part time Bike/Bus only lanes are a suggestion not taken in Los Angeles, as shown in a video by Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider. Michael talks with Miriam Pinski, PhD, Transportation Researcher at Shared-Use Mobility Center, about why and what can be done. 0:27
NYC’s congestion pricing has set the stage for pedestrian and bike advocates’ dreams to become real, including an east-west protected bike path on 72nd street, protected paths on 3rd Avenue to East Harlem and Broadway to Union Square, and a pedestrian-safer Canal street. The plans are in a recent NYC Department Of Transportation Report, “Connecting To The Core,” and put in context here by Transportation Alternatives’ Communications Director Alexa Sledge. 46:34
“America’s Bike Mayor” John Bauters, former Mayor of Emeryville, California, weighs in on whether a bad bike lane is better than none, designing a city for bikes, and running (as a cyclist) for Alameda County Supervisor. 0.39
Sports journalist Joe Lindsey breaks down the beauty of bike racing and explains why this season’s Grand Tours may be the most exciting in years. 18:55
Jacob Sheppard-Saidel’s “Bike Commuting 101” workshop as part of Bike Month in Northampton, Massachusetts aims to increase access to biking. With a comment by Howard Moore on his conversion to bike commuting, on a dare. 38:00
A discussion of the harrassment of cyclists by drivers and “motonormativity” research sparked by a social media helmet cam video. With Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute postdoc and Bike Ottawa board member. 16:26
Frequent Bike Talk contributor and President of Motown TrailBlazerz bike club in Detroit Reo Ramsey joins Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, to talk about the rides they’re planning for Bike Month. 49:36
Listener Email: Dan Murphy on hi-viz clothing: a low cost safety measure, or victim blaming? 14:57
The Great American Rail Trail, the nation’s first cross-country multiuse trail, will stretch more than 3,700 miles between Washington, D.C., and Washington State. Powell County, Montana Planning Director Amanda Cooley and Kevin Belle, Project Manager at Rails to Trails Conservancy, tell Taylor Nichols all about it. 20:05
Re:ciclos is a program which aims to create wider access to cargo bicycle technology and empowerment of youth in black and brown communities by exposure to fabrication, mechanics, advocacy, outreach, and community. Re:ciclos founder Jimmy Lizama talks with Ava Maria. 38:56
Legal Moment: Can companies be held liable when employees crash while phone-multitasking? With attorney Jim Pocrass. 2:29
Skaters Who Bike in Phoenix are expanding to other cities and towns. With Tim Ward. 8:54
A comprehensive look at years of research about the effect of bike lanes on businesses with journalist Adam Rogers, writer of Bike Lanes Are Good for Business. 15:10
Journalist Alison Griswold and Anne Marie Drolet talk on Lyft’s thwarted attempt to take over Metro Los Angeles’ bike share system, and Why Lyft is Running From Bicycles. 37:37
Listener email: an endorsement for Charles Marohn’s “empathy for the driver,” D.C. bike infrastructure, and an inquiry about our theme song, “Bike.” 2:41
The entire state of California and the individual cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Los Angeles have proposed or passed measures which implement bike plans when repaving roads. With Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Printz. 7:19
California isn’t the only leader in bike friendly legislation; heads of bike and safe streets organizations in New York City, Minneapolis, Detroit, Massachusetts, and Paris share their success stories. 17:20
ValleyBike, Massachusetts’ 2nd largest bikeshare, went bankrupt. Carolyn Misch, Sustainability Director of the city of Northampton, MA., talks about the lesson therein, and how bikeshare can be sustainable. 28:26
Union-busting, bikeshare-dropping Lyft’s bid to replace the current Los Angeles bikeshare vendor, Bicycle Transit Systems, failed. Anne Marie Drolet, Chief Shop Steward of LA Metro Bikeshare, gives some context. 47:52
Listener email: can companies be sued for letting employees do virtual meetings or read work docs while driving? 49:52
The Access to Hollywood program will add protected bike and bus lanes and cause “traffic evaporation” on LA’s Hollywood Boulevard. Taylor Nichols with LA City Council District 4 Field Deputy Mehmet Berker. 2:01
Personal injury lawyer Jim Pocrass explains the legal grounds for taking the lane. 8:35
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