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Happy Hour

June 21, 2021

Don Ward talks to Lynn Ingram, Jim Shanman, Krista Carlson, Brian Russel, and Karen Kanady, who had nothing to do. Topics include:

bike polo
midnight ridazz
social rides
tv
bike nerds
portland
la
cats

bikepolo, midnightridazz, music, socialrides, SoundCloud, tv
Metros Active Transportation Funding

June 18, 2021

Wesley Reutimann dives into the details of Los Angeles Metro Active Transportation funding with Katie Lemmon, Manager of Transportation Planning at Metro.
Wesley is the Special Programs Director at Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV), and a special host of Bike Talk.
Edited by Kevin Burton

activetransportation, biking, lametro, music, SoundCloud, transportation
Nithya Raman

June 11, 2021

Don gives Nithya Raman a couple of suggestions for “politically easy” moves to make streets in her district safe, after the Los Angeles District 4 Councilmember updates Don on her battle to address homelessness in a humane way.

bicycle, completestreets, housing, losangeles, music, SoundCloud
Bike Mayor of London Ontario

June 4, 2021

The state of bicycles in London, Ontario with its (bike) Mayor Shelley Carr.
bycs.org/shelley-carr/

BikeMayor, bycs, Londonontario, music, shelleycarr, SoundCloud
Bike Mayors

May 21, 2021

The Bicycle Mayor Network by Amsterdam-based BYCS.org is a global initiative which promotes the bicycle as a solution to some of the most complex urban challenges.

Interviews with Bike Mayors Arcy Canumay of Waterloo, Canada and Jillian Banfield of Halifax, Canada; also, Lucas Snaije, BYCS Content and Communications Manager.

Plus a bike manifesto from Lindsay Sturman
twitter.com/LindsayJS

Co-hosted by Don Ward, Nick Richert, Lindsay Sturman, and Terence Heuston.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

BikeMayor, bycs, halifax, music, SoundCloud, waterloo
Beautiful Struggle for a Complete Street

May 15, 2021

Brand new Los Angeles CD 14 Councilmember Kevin De Leon, former “climate champion” with aspiration to be Mayor, wrote an open letter asking for more meetings on the Metro BRT’s plan for Eagle Rock. It seems the pro-short commute crowd of Eagle Rock have his ear now that Metro’s leaning to the “Beautiful Boulevard” option, which features a bike lane and slower traffic. Felicia Garcia, community organizer; Joe Linton, Streetsblog LA journalist/editor; and Seamus Garrity, not in his official role as a Field Representative for California Assemblymember Laura Friedman, preside. With Don Ward, safe streets organizer.

la.streetsblog.org/2021/05/14/kevi…-more-meetings/
www.latimes.com/opinion/story/202…ect-kevin-de-leon

bikepath, completestreets, infrastructure, metrobrt, music, SoundCloud
America Walks and Bikes on the Mutcd Revision

May 10, 2021

America Walks E.D. Mike McGinn and League of American Bicyclists E.D. Bill Nesper on ‘a once in a decade or more opportunity–’ the revising of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

The MUTCD is at once an ‘obscure’ document and ‘bible’ for engineers, controlling bikeways, crosswalks, speed limits, and other road design features.

The new administration and USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg give active transportation advocates reason to hope that the Manual will be rewritten with pedestrians and bicyclists in mind.

League’s MUTCD action alert – p2a.co/nG8UFZU

Background blog on the MUTCD and the League’s proposition: bikeleague.org/content/mutcd-ref…ty-rewrite-future

Bike-side Chat with Sec Pete – www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VSBTNGDpb

Mike McGinn and America Walks links:
americawalks.org/urgent-action-al…r-safer-streets/

americawalks.org/how-the-mutcd-cr…-to-access-food/

americawalks.org/new-webinar-the-…ity-and-climate/

www.streetfilms.org/biking-to-work-…or-mike-mcginn/

bicyclists, completestreets, music, mutcd, pedestrians, SoundCloud
Car Centricity and Climate Crisis

April 30, 2021

Traffic savant, cartoonist, and author Andy Singer (www.andysinger.com/) explains the MUTCD,
‘The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (which) defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel(mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/) .’ The ‘bible’ for traffic engineers, the Manual is dangerously auto-centric, and undergoing a process of revision which only happens every 10-15 years.
Andy also talks about his work with the St. Paul bicycle coalition which he founded, his cartoon career, hopes for the current administration, and thoughts about the future.

Then: an interview by Andrea Learned, climate action leadership strategist, with David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto, Director of International Diplomacy for C40 Cities, and author of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis.

bicycle, climate, music, mutcd, SoundCloud, transportation
Active Transportation Program in Effect

April 24, 2021

On 4/20, the Beverly Hills City Council unanimously voted to adopt complete streets after years of advocacy by Mark Elliot and his allies. Mark talks about this win.betterbike.org/Then-Deborah Murphy, Urban Design Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founderand Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of FASTLinkDTLA, a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downtown Los Angeles-consult with Mark on his recent experience in Beverly Hills.Hilary, Deborah, and veteran rida Don Ward go on to talk about Deborah’s amazing success with facilitating the award of over $278 million in grant funds for active transportation, new parks/open space and sustainable cities projects in the past 13 years. It’s why Deborah is affectionately known as the Oprah of the safe streets movement.Deborah and Hilary focus in particular on the record breaking $31 million ATP grant for “Connecting Canoga Park” which Deborah worked on and the CTC approved. It was the largest monetary award in the ATP’s history.cal.streetsblog.org/2021/02/09/acti…tions-released/Hilary and Deborah also talk about the CTC’s request for $2 billion in Active Transportation funds:catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/d…or-website-a11y.pdf

activetransportation, canogapark, deborahmurphy, music, SoundCloud
Protecting Vulnerable Road Users

April 17, 2021

Because defending the most vulnerable road users makes everyone safer, we talk to LA Walks Executive Director John Yi and Jared Sanchez, CalBike Senior Policy Advocate, about AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act. If made law, this would legalize mid-block crossings and crossing against traffic lights in California.
THEN,
Josh Cohen, a personal injury lawyer specializing in bikes, discusses the legal options for forcing DOTs and carmakers to make transportation safer.

ab1238

lawalks

California

jaywalking

pedestrians

bikes

ab1238, california, jaywalking, lawalks, music, SoundCloud