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Bike Camping and Active Transportation

September 4, 2022

START:
No Bikes Allowed: John Elliot, a musician who tours by bike, was denied entrance to Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California, because he didn’t arrive by car. We got Andrew Brooks, President of the Skyline Park Citizens Association, and Kara Vernor, Executive Director of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition, to discuss what all parties acknowledge is a big mistake.

28:45
Adventures: Adventure Cycling’s Bike Overnights program’s Events Coordinator Carmen Aiken, with Bike Talk cohost and Pedal People Founder Ruthy Woodring.

Transcript: drive.google.com/file/d/1uA7QpOct…view?usp=sharing
Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, “Bike,” by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music by Don Ward.

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08/30/22 Bike Talk

August 30, 2022

START:
Healthy Streets for Los Angeles? No: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously not to require itself to implement its own mobility plan whenever a street is repaved. Healthy Streets LA will be on the Los Angeles ballot anyway, in 2024. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, which created HSLA, gives feedback.

7:02
@ChiCritMass for Mayor: Chicago’s 8/26 Critical Mass was truly massive, with hundreds of riders. One rider, Illinois State Representative for the 26th District Kam Buckner (also candidate for Chicago Mayor), recounts the ride with Juan Dominguez, a @Chicritmass leader.

19:13
Pop up: Dave Campbell, Bike East Bay Advocacy Director, helped install a temporary protected bike lane in San Leandro, California, giving residents a way to experience the difference. With Bike Talk cohost Stacey Randecker.

40:15
Denver Streets: Jill Locantore, Executive Director of Denver Streets Partnership, with the transportation advocacy landscape in Denver, Colorado.

Editing by Kevin Burton, founder of the West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition.

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08/23/22 Bike Talk

August 23, 2022

START:
Update: Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Directors of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, respectively, on the bike issues of the day.
www.massbike.org/
www.la-bike.org/

7:35
Road Revolution: The historic closing 2/3 of a mile of Griffith Park Drive to cars is part of Los Angeles CD4 Councilmember Nithya Raman’s “Road Revolution.” She and ally California 43rd District Assemblymember Laura Friedman talk about their celebration of wins for the park, as well as Laura’s upcoming bills for active transportation and emissions reduction.
a43.asmdc.org/
councildistrict4.lacity.org/

31:39
Unblocking: Carter Lavin helps bike advocates navigate political roadblocks. He and fellow Bay Area resident Stacey Randecker (who literally stops and slows traffic with Slow Jam rides and “Just a Minute” actions) talk about how to be more politically effective.
twitter.com/CarterLavin

51:27
Livability: Livable Communities Initiative concepts with Jenny Hontz and Ed Mendoza. With Bike Talk cohost and Los Angeles CD 5 Bicycle Advisory Council Representative Taylor Nichols.
livablecommunitiesinitiative.com

Edited by West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition Founder Kevin Burton.

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Healthy Streets

August 15, 2022

Transcript: otter.ai/u/C5985nInxtDx2b3QZJSlMcOg7oI

If the Los Angeles City Council votes to adopt the Healthy Streets LA initiative on 08/26/2022, the city will finally follow its own mobility plan, and add new bus and bike lanes on 1/3 of its streets.
Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, the nonprofit organization which created the Healthy Streets LA initiative, explains.
www.healthystreetsla.com/
bit.ly/hsla-council

9:40 – Nedra Deadwyler on her bike tours of the human and civil rights stories in the history of Atlanta: Civil Bikes.
With Ruthy Woodring.
civilbikes.com/

30:08 – Zach Katz uploads streets redesigned to be people-friendly using the artificial intelligence program DALL-E.
With Stacey Randecker.
twitter.com/betterstreetsai

52:10 – “Segway Batman,” a Chicago Segway tour guide, held a crosswalk protest to raise awareness of deadly driver behavior.
twitter.com/Segway_Ruins

56:45 – Several hundred bicyclists rode through Toronto’s High Park in response to police harrassment of cyclists. Dave Shellnut, the Biking Lawyer, on why he organized the ride.
twitter.com/TheBikingLawyer

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Bike Reps

August 9, 2022

Administrating the Massachusetts and Los Angeles County bicycle coalitions, with Executive Directors Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman.

www.massbike.org/
www.la-bike.org/

*Galen hosts a Bike Talk at biketalk881.com/
**Edited by Kevin Burton, cofounder of the West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition.

22:13
The Bicycle Mayor of Toronto, Lanrick Bennett, Jr. on his “origin story,” his daughter’s “bike strike,” biking with kids, and his real-time education of dangerous drivers.

bycs.org/
twitter.com/BicycleMayorTO

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Get Active

July 30, 2022

Laura Friedman speaks on her bill, AB2438, which would get California’s notoriously car-centric transportation agencies to align their funding formulas with California’s values around climate change.Contact the Senate Appropriations Committee to get the bill moving forward – sapro.senate.ca.gov/cal.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/miss…needs-a-b-2438/19:30 – Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize and host of The Life Sized City, is crowdfunding an effort to get bikes to the displaced people of Ukraine.www.gofundme.com/f/bikes4ukrainewww.colville-andersen.com/39:23 – Doug Gordon, host of The War On Cars Podcast, speaks about the War effort.thewaroncars.org/brooklynspoke.com/58:44 – MassBike Executive Director Galen Mook and Northampton activist Elena Huisman on bike legislation and ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding in Massachusetts.www.massbike.org/Edited by Kevin Burton.

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Slow Jams

July 23, 2022

00: MassBike Minute with MassBike Executive Director/Cohost Galen Mook.

3:42: Handbuilt bike collector Aaron Lipstadt shows his favorites to Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols.

27:42: Stacey Randecker, San Francisco street activist, on “Just A Minute” protests and the work of the SF Bike Coalition. With Nick Richert.

41:29: Chicago Bike Grid Now: Rony Islam and Emily Wilson with Nick Richert.

50:01: Plotting data to for Canadian bike lanes: Theoretical Physicist Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, with Nick Richert.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/jg_i45oHFnoZ6gKUWRp3y9zzDdI

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Urban Riders

July 11, 2022

Jessica Fizgerald Ruvalcava is the first recipient of an electric cargo bike from fellow Los Angeles Ecovillage member Jimmy Lizama’s “Reciclos” project.11:45 Kyle Lucas is cofounder of Better Streets Chicago.26:25 Stacey Rendecker refusing to move while demonstrating for safe streets in San Francisco.43:00 Lucy Maloney engages the cycling Community in Vancouver.Edited by Kevin Burton.

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Safe Streets Rebels

July 4, 2022

San Francisco’s Safe Streets Rebels form “people protected bike lanes” where no safe lanes exist, hold slow rides that block car traffic on the contested Great Walkway, and have vigils at locations where car drivers kill pedestrians or bicyclists.
Maureen Persico, Scott Feeney, and Brett Bertocci relate.
www.safestreetrebel.com

32:29
Architect, urbanist Mike Eliason, founder of Larchlab, on sustainable mobility and ecodistricts.
With Lindsay Sturman.
www.larchlab.com/what-we-do/

42:49
TheGotBike blogger Salem Mazzawy’s purpose has been to get people to ride bikes. Ruthy Woodring reports on his hit and run, and his partner Adele’s response.
Also, the sentencing of the distracted driver who killed Northampton High music teacher Charlie Braun.
thegotbike.blogspot.com
www.masslive.com/news/2022/06/hal…or-15-years.html

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Open Streets and Two Wheels Good

June 25, 2022

The first Ciclovías began in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. In 2010, after immense effort by the cycling community of Los Angeles, an Open Streets event, there called CicLAvia, first took place in the heart of Downtown—and became an instant hit.

Dozens of individuals and organizations have put their weight behind CicLAvia. In this episode, we speak with one of the prime movers of the city’s ongoing CicLAvia program, Tafarai Bayne, as well as Jacob Wessel of the Boston DOT on plans for Open Streets events in Massachusetts.
-With cohost Taylor Nichols

17:51 “Two Wheels Good” author, journalist Jody Rosen, talks about the impact of the bicycle on humanity over the last two hundred years–again, with Taylor Nichols.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

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