Tag: SoundCloud
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What Can a Mayor Do or a Mom
The Mayor of the City of Emeryville, California, John Bauters, campaigned on a platform that supported building affordable housing, expanding active transit infrastructure, and making Emeryville more sustainable and environmentally resilient.John bikes the talk on his 41 mile commute to Bay Area Air Quality Management District meetings, where he’s the Vice Chair.Melanie Curry, Editor of…
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Caltrans and Equiticity
CalTrans, California’s Department of Transportation, has been driver-centric until now, but with a new Complete Streets policy and active transportation advocates in the lead, it may be a new agency. CalTrans Deputy Director for Sustainability Tony Dang fields questions from Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell. With Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Then-the mobility…
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New Year New Union New E Trike New Theme Song
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Michael Schneiders 2021 Wrapup with Nick Aka John Foresters Worst Enemy
Michael Schneider, founder Streets for All, goes over the highs and lows of 2021 for safe streets in Los Angeles with Don Ward and Lindsay Sturman. streetsforall.org/ Then-New Year’s resolutions from a #bikeTwitter perspective with Nick (AKA John Forester’s Worst Nightmare). twitter.com/C_rless Edited by Kevin Burton
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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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A Tale of Two Cities Parklets From Pittsfield Ma to Glendora Ca
Pittsfield’s Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales helped get protected bike lanes, “parklets,” and safe streets implemented in his Western Massachusetts city of over 42,000. It’s been an uphill ride. Glendora’s Transportation Manager Steven Mateer talks with Ricardo about the “Parklets” recently installed where cars used to park in his city of over 51,000, just…
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Winter Riding
Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bicycle co-op in Boston, Mass., on winter riding. Galen Mook, co-founder of Common Wheels and Executive Director of Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, on Updating Massachusetts’ hands free law to include apps like Facetime. www.commonwheels.org/ With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling…
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Space for Co Ops
Steve Campos on cleaning Northeast Los Angeles’ seminal bike co-op, the Bike Oven, after years of dysfunction. Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bike co-op in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. Luis Fernandez on finding a new space for the Bike Kitchen in Dorchester, another Boston neighborhood. Amber Drea, a Streetsblog Chicago reporter, on…
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Bike Minds
Lindsay Sturman interviews Maurits Lopes Cardozo, a designer of solutions for bicycle networks at Bike Minded; Chase Engelhardt, Policy Analyst & Organizer with Climate Resolve; and Laura Shepherd, an organizer for Transportation Alternatives in New York City. Edited by Kevin Burton
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World Day of Remembrance
On the 2021 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Babs Owca, with Half Acre Cycling, remembers fellow rider Adé Hogue, whose death by car and subsequent ghost bike vigil brought traffic to a standstill in Chicago. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2021/11/03/during-ghost-bike-vigil-100s-of-mourners-occupied-intersection-where-ade-hogue-was-killed/ “Grandma Beverly” Shelton tells the story of her 5 year old grandson, who was killed in…
