Tag: bike
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Victory
START Parallel Universe – MassBike E.D. and Cohost Galen Mook, a.k.a. Mookmaster Bikes, on the parallels in legislation between California and Massachusetts, plus the impact of “parking guru” Donald Shoup. Then- 7:27 Shoup’s On: Laura Friedman’s AB 2097 (now law) will “prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential,…
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Bikes
START:There’s an avalanche of new bike legislation on California Governor Newsom’s desk. California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry gives a reportback based on her article:cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/02/legi…safety-climate/ 26:08Mark Sanderson owned and staffed the East Lansing bicycle shop, Velocipede Peddler, for 45 years. Now he’s employed as a mechanic in the same space by the new owners, D&D Bicycles…
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Bike Perspectives
START: Adaptive Cycling: Western Massachusetts adaptive cyclists Naomi Clark and Giovanni Lynch talk with Berkshire Bike Path President Marjorie Cohan. 17:35 Bike Picture: Jerome Horne, Transit Center’s Director of Transit Leadership Development, on bikes in society, with Nick Richert. 33:30 Bike Innovator: Craig Calfee, a bike builder who pioneered carbon fiber and bamboo in bike…
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Bike Camping and Active Transportation
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…
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08/30/22 Bike Talk
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…
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08/23/22 Bike Talk
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/ 7:35Road 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.”…
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Healthy Streets
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…
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Bike Reps
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,”…
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Get Active
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…
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Slow Jams
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…
