Tag: cars
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We’re Not Copenhagen 26/31
Taylor on being a bike nerd and making friends by bike, like Kay Shuster. Bicycles Are Partisan now, writes Lo Sontag in light of the MAGA federal assault on biking. But the real divide isn’t left/right, it’s who has power and who doesn’t. 5:41 Listener Tim Dyet writes he plans a bike trip in NY,…
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26/11 Biking is Political
The cost of cars is skyrocketing. Listener emails: a request for Kevin Grishkot’s bike poem “I ride,” and Stephen Bingham on House and senate bills mandating side underride guards on new trucks (3:44). Charlie’s News: a protected bike lane for Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The Magnus White Safe Streets Act would require auto-braking to detect…
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Costa Rica, Congestion Pricing NYC, and Biking with Disability #2501
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Bikes, the Universe, and Everything
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Priorities
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How to Stop Traffic Violence
Transcript: bit.ly/3LIdy1z Intro: Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols share their audio and thoughts from the January 21 Die-in to protest traffic deaths at Los Angeles City Hall. With Seamus Garrity.la.streetsblog.org/2023/01/23/safe…traffic-deaths/ 12:24 on.soundcloud.com/Wh3yuGetting Through: Damian Kevitt, founder of Streets Are For Everyone, on why traffic violence incidents are not accidents, and the story of the hit…
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A Piece of the Pie
STARTIntro with Taylor Nichols, LA City District 5 Bicycle Advisory Committee Representative. 3:03 on.soundcloud.com/zBSL1Bike Strike: Alejandra Rios and Nick Stewart-Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles academic workers, on the use of the bicycle as an organizing tool in their ongoing labor strike. 12:13 on.soundcloud.com/Q3G3EBike Club Grads: Edwin and Ryan, members of the recently founded…
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Measures
STARTMassachusetts Bicycle Coalition E.D. Galen Mook on safe streets-related ballot questions 1 (the “Fair Share Amendment”) and 4 (driver licenses for undocumented immigrants) in the Massachusetts election. 2:18 on.soundcloud.com/3DJwQRoad Kill: Prop “J” would keep The Great Walkway and JFK Drive in San Francisco car free for community; Prop “I” would steal smiles from children. Zach…
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Were on a Roll
STARTStay Car Free: San Francisco will vote on whether to keep JFK Drive car free November 8th. Stacey Randecker interviews Prop J organizer Zachary Lipton.sf.streetsblog.org/2022/08/30/save…-n-and-no-on-i/ 2:05In Closing: Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin has been a friend to Los Angeles bikes and pedestrians. Bonin fought two recall efforts, one of which was over traffic calming he…
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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…
