Tag: city
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Supporting Roles
IntroSeamus, Nick and Taylor preview today’s stories. 1:44 on.soundcloud.com/xmoyUWho’s Dying: Streets Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) found that Los Angeles traffic violence killed 309 people in 2022, an increase of five percent from the previous year and 28 percent over 2020. They’re holding a Die-In at City Hall next Saturday. Lindsay Sturman interviews Damian Kevitt, S.A.F.E.…
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Eye Opening Eye Opening
STARTGlobal Connections: At Bike Lab, a DIY workshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for projects in Trinidad and Haiti. 8:47 on.soundcloud.com/HppWEBFF: The Bicycle Film Festival’s Founding Director, Brendt Barbur, interviewed by Taylor Nichols. 27:33 on.soundcloud.com/27tvNWindshield Bias: NYC bicyclist lawyer Adam White tells how he was thrown in jail for removing a piece of…
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Inspire
STARTSchool Bus: a bike bus run by P.E. teacher Sam Balto in Portland, OR has been emulated and celebrated in social media. Interviews with Bus volunteers and Portland Bike Loud members Cathy Tuttle and Paul Buchanan. 10:51 on.soundcloud.com/f3CCjThe Oven Is Open: after years of hanging on by a thread, the Bicycle Oven collective of Northeast…
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Together
STARTHappy Trails: friends of non-Internal Combustion Engine transportation converged at the MassTrails conference last Saturday. MassBike E.D. Galen Mook interviews Namrit Kapur of HubLove.www.masstrailsconference.com/ 6:29 on.soundcloud.com/d8UzSAlmost here: Eli Kaufman on Fig for all’s years-long effort of making 3.2 miles of iconic Sunset blvd a 2-way protected bike lane, transforming the “high injury network” street into…
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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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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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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.”…
