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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
Active Transportation Strategy and Windshield Bias

October 27, 2021

https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-active-transportation-strategy-and-windshield-bias%3Fsi%3D2c3771c0b8c743bca4fec9da8ca471b5

Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy.
www.ciclavia.org/
Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen “Coal-rolled” a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or ticketed.
www.bikelaw.com/2021/10/waller-bike-crash/

Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicyclestrategy

bicyclestrategy, music, SoundCloud
Fear and Open Streets

October 23, 2021

Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

music, SoundCloud
Mayor Helps on Bikes

October 19, 2021

Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, “complete streets plus,” and how Victoria’s City Council “just built it.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s

bikeinfra, mayorhelps, music, SoundCloud
Pending Active Transportation Legislation in California

October 8, 2021

Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk:
AB 43: Allow lower speed limits
AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields
AB 773: Making slow streets permanent
AB 1238: Repealing jaywalking laws
Edited by Kevin Burton.

bicycle, california, music, newsom, SoundCloud
Laura Friedman

October 2, 2021

California State Assembly Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, safe streets, speed, education, and more.
Edited by Kevin Burton.

ab43, education, laura, music, parking, SoundCloud