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New Year New Union New E Trike New Theme Song

January 9, 2022

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bikemusic, deliveristasunidos, enabling, massbike, music, SoundCloud
Michael Schneiders 2021 Wrapup with Nick Aka John Foresters Worst Enemy

January 1, 2022

Michael Schneider, founder Streets for All, goes over the highs and lows of 2021 for safe streets in Los Angeles with Don Ward and Lindsay Sturman.
streetsforall.org/

Then-New Year’s resolutions from a #bikeTwitter perspective with Nick (AKA John Forester’s Worst Nightmare).
twitter.com/C_rless

Edited by Kevin Burton

bike, biketwitter, music, newyear, SoundCloud, streetsforall
E Bike Revolution

December 25, 2021

Lloyd Alter, blogger at Treehugger.org, talks about his article, “Politicians and Planners Are Missing The E-Bike Revolution” with Galen Mook, Bike Talk host and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition.

Dr. Natalia Barbour, Assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, and Courtney Cobbs, E-Bike enthusiast, co-editor of Streetsblog Chicago, and Co-founder of Better Streets Chicago, talk e-bikes with Taylor Nichols of the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, completestreets, ebike, infrastructure, music, SoundCloud
A Tale of Two Cities Parklets From Pittsfield Ma to Glendora Ca

December 18, 2021

Pittsfield’s Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales helped get protected bike lanes, “parklets,” and safe streets implemented in his Western Massachusetts city of over 42,000. It’s been an uphill ride.

Glendora’s Transportation Manager Steven Mateer talks with Ricardo about the “Parklets” recently installed where cars used to park in his city of over 51,000, just 26 miles from Los Angeles, California.

Glendora Mayor Karen Davis joins Ricardo and Steven to talk about how it’s gone and the road ahead.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

glendora, infrastructure, music, parklets, Pittsfield, SoundCloud
Winter Riding

December 11, 2021

Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bicycle co-op in Boston, Mass., on winter riding.
Galen Mook, co-founder of Common Wheels and Executive Director of Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, on Updating Massachusetts’ hands free law to include apps like Facetime.
www.commonwheels.org/
With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling and transit, and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Biketalk – Brett-and-roland-bike-talk-audioedited-1
Edited by Kevin Burton

music, SoundCloud
Space for Co Ops

December 4, 2021

Steve Campos on cleaning Northeast Los Angeles’ seminal bike co-op, the Bike Oven, after years of dysfunction.
Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bike co-op in the Boston neighborhood of Allston.
Luis Fernandez on finding a new space for the Bike Kitchen in Dorchester, another Boston neighborhood.
Amber Drea, a Streetsblog Chicago reporter, on the North Lawndale Bike Box, a new community cycle shop in a shipping container.
Edited by Kevin Burton

bikebox, bikekitchen, bikeoven, commonwheels, music, SoundCloud
Bike Minds

November 28, 2021

Lindsay Sturman interviews Maurits Lopes Cardozo, a designer of solutions for bicycle networks at Bike Minded; Chase Engelhardt, Policy Analyst & Organizer with Climate Resolve; and Laura Shepherd, an organizer for Transportation Alternatives in New York City.

Edited by Kevin Burton

music, SoundCloud
World Day of Remembrance

November 27, 2021

On the 2021 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Babs Owca, with Half Acre Cycling, remembers fellow rider Adé Hogue, whose death by car and subsequent ghost bike vigil brought traffic to a standstill in Chicago.
https://chi.streetsblog.org/2021/11/03/during-ghost-bike-vigil-100s-of-mourners-occupied-intersection-where-ade-hogue-was-killed/

“Grandma Beverly” Shelton tells the story of her 5 year old grandson, who was killed in a car crash in 2009. Beverly began the Zachary Michael Cruz foundation in her grandson’s honor, and co-founded SoCal Safe Streets.
https://zmcfoundation.org/
https://www.losangeleswalks.org/socal_fss

Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, joins the Zoom from a memorial at the Massachusetts state house with flowers for all road traffic victims of 2021 .
https://www.massbike.org/massbike_updates?page=1

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Familiesforsafestreets, music, SoundCloud
Brett and Roland Bike Talk Audioedited 1

November 19, 2021

The combination of bikes and public transit with Netherlands “bike train guru,” Roland Kager www.dutchcycling.nl/en/network/memb…em/roland-kager
and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles Metro www.metro.net/riding/bike-transit/.

Lindsay Sturman, Bike Talk cohost, interviews.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

bikes

transit

bikes, music, SoundCloud, transit
25×25 and Massbike

November 13, 2021

The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman.
+ Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston’s Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle.
Edited by Kevin Burton.

25×25, massbike, music, SoundCloud