Tag: bicycle
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Bikeways Ca Legislation Nyc Open Street Mass Rail Trail
Bikeways, active transportation, climate change, and safe streets with Laura Friedman, California state Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, in conversation with Dave Snyder, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California. a43.asmdc.org/ New York City’s Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mile stretch where “vehicles are…
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041722 Bike Talk
Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cycling Federation, on her advocacy for biking and reducing oil dependency in Europe–with cohost Lindsay Sturman. ecf.com/ 18:48 Chris Bruntlett, co-author of “Building the Cycling City” and “Curbing Traffic” and Communications Manager for the Dutch Cycling Embassy, talks with Lindsay Sturman about how reducing car speed is essential to…
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Bikeways for All
California Assembly Bill 371 “would put most, if not all, shared micromobility systems out of business.” California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Dave Snyder talks about this threat and Calbike’s budget request for $500 million to implement connected, protected bicycle networks with cohost Taylor Nichols.www.calbike.org/calbike-opposes-ab-371/“2 Wheeled Wolf” blogger Wolf Simpson talks to cohost Sarah Dylan Bruer…
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Safe Streets in Western Mass San Diego and Online
Northampton, Massachusetts residents are organizing in the wake of Charlie Braun’s car killing. George Kahout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails, and Elena Huisman, with Main Street For Everyone, talk to Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition.mainst4everyone.org/fntrails.org/www.massbike.org/www.gazettenet.com/Driver-who-stru…harged-43390653Then, @ 27:00,Laura Keenan, whose husband, Matt, was killed by a distracted driver in September, has…
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Estonia Los Angeles Arlington
The Estonian ambassador to The Netherlands rides a bike as his official diplomatic vehicle. Lauri Kuusing talks about that and the impact of the Ukraine situation with Lindsay Sturman. twitter.com/LKuusing/status/149…x54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ @12:34: Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, talks to Taylor Nichols about the Healthy Streets LA initiative, which “provided a…
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Bike Los Angeles and Biketwitter
Los Angeles Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman and her Field Deputy Mehmet Berker on how they’re doing more for bikes than the rest of LA City Council (according to Streets For All). Read: la.streetsblog.org/2022/01/24/coun…infrastructure/ -with Lindsay Sturman, cohost. @ 19:55: @EmFriedenberg, @esoxeneco, and @JCRiecke on their viral tweets: twitter.com/EmFriedenberg/statu…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, twitter.com/esoxeneco/status/14…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, and twitter.com/JCRiecke/status/148…90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ @40:00: LA…
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Healthy Streets and the Idaho Stop
Streets For All’s Founder Michael Schneider with cohost Taylor Nichols on why Los Angeles needs another safe streets nonprofit, and their campaign to force the city to implement its own mobility plan every time a street is repaved. www.healthystreetsla.com/ streetsforall.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton. @ 19:45- Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield talks with Eben Weiss,…
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Speed Red Light Camera Bias
A University of Chicago Illinois report found racial and ethnic disparities in who speed/red light cameras recorded breaking traffic laws. What can be done about it? Chicago Streetsblog co-editor John Greenfield interviewed UIC professors and authors of the report, Dr. Stacey Sutton and Dr. Nebiyou Tilahoun, for Bike Talk. John’s article on their report and…
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E Bike Revolution
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…
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Pending Active Transportation Legislation in California
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.
