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Emily Gallagher

December 26, 2020

Emily Gallagher, Assemblywoman-elect for NY Assembly District 50, on non-car transportation in NYC

With Lindsay Sturman, reporter for This American Bike

www.emilyforassembly.com/

bicycle, music, nyassembly, nyc, politics, SoundCloud
Traffic Violence in the Pandemic

December 16, 2020

What’s causing California’s 15% increase in fatal and severe traffic crashes when there’s a 29% drop in the rate of minor injury vehicle crashes? S.A.F.E. (Streets Are For Everyone) E.D. Damian Kevitt, himself a survivor of an infamous hit and run and founder of Finish The Ride, with Bibiana Diaz, who was riding her bicycle in South Los Angeles in July with her step-father, Jorge Guerra, when Jorge was killed in a hit-and-run. UC Berkeley professor Offer Grembek, co-director of the university’s Safe Transportation Research & Education Center (SafeTREC), will interpret data on transportation safety during the pandemic. Dorothy Wong, Bike teacher, activist, and Altadena Town Councilmember, joins the discussion.

berkeleysafetrec, music, safe, SoundCloud
Bike Authors

December 16, 2020

History Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, James Longhurst on his book, Bike Battles
bikebattles.net/about-the-author/

(29:23)Streetsblogger Angie Schmitt on her book Right of Way
usa.streetsblog.org/author/angie/

(56:26)Phillip Leff of NYC on politics and the ease of breaking bike locks these days.
twitter.com/philipleff

bikebooks, bikelocks, music, SoundCloud
This American Bike Vol 5 Sarahs Diary

December 15, 2020

Lindsay Sturman interviews Adult Beginner Bike Diarist Sarah Berry on UK’s Cycle Revolution and her part in it.twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry

music, SoundCloud
120520 Scott Epstein for La City Council District 5

December 7, 2020

Scott Epstein Chairs the Midcity West Community Council. He’s a transportation advocate who’s had two neighborhood greenways approved through Mid City West. He’s a cyclist who commuted by bike and bus to his job as an education researcher at UCLA. He’s running for LA Council District 5.

https://twitter.com/scottforla
https://scottforla.co

lacd5, scottepstein
Nithya 1

November 25, 2020

Nithya Raman won her campaign for Los Angeles CD4 November 3, against an incumbent who stalled or opposed safe streets projects. Raman’s being called “LA’s first totally unbought elected official.”
www.nithyaforthecity.com/

Then, (34:00) Friends of Griffith Park don’t let arial trams in the park, according to Gerry Hans. friendsofgriffithpark.org/what-we-do/o…-park-board/

Felicia Garcia (1:08:20) of Equitable Eagle Rock calls for Metro to give alternatives to ripping out buffered bike lanes and other distasteful options for its Noho-Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Also, to listen to actual bus riders instead of the nimby’s who’ve responded to Metro’s outreach.
www.equitableeaglerock.com

And lastly, This American Bike correspondent Lindsay Sturman interviews Car Dependency Campaigner and Adult Beginner Bike Rider Sarah Berry (1:18:54)on how the UK is hoping to start the “Cycle Revolution.” twitter.com/SarahJ_Berry

eaglerockbrt, friendsofgriffithpark, lacd4, music, nithyaraman, SoundCloud
102320 Nithya Raman

November 23, 2020

11 days before her historic election to Los Angeles CD 4, Councilmember Elect Nithya Raman, LA’s first “totally unbought elected official,” shares her ideas.
www.nithyaforthecity.com/

music, nithyaraman, SoundCloud
091520 Ebikes Electric Cars and Climate

November 10, 2020

Ebikes, Electric Cars, and Climate
Grace Peng, scientist and Natural Resources Chair for League of Women Voters LA County & Beach Cities, teams up with Costa Samaras, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, to explore and explain how ebikes, but not electric cars, are a solution to pollution.

https://twitter.com/gspeng
https://twitter.com/CostaSamaras

climate, ebikes, electriccars, music, SoundCloud
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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