Bike Talk

Jessica Fizgerald Ruvalcava is the first recipient of an electric cargo bike from fellow Los Angeles Ecovillage member Jimmy Lizama’s “Reciclos” project. 11:45 Kyle Lucas is cofounder of Better Streets Chicago. 26:25 Stacey Rendecker was recently arrested for refusing to move while demonstrating for safe streets in San Francisco. 43:00 Lucy Maloney engages the cycling Community in Vancouver. Edite...

San Francisco's Safe Streets Rebels form "people protected bike lanes" where no safe lanes exist, hold slow rides that block car traffic on the contested Great Walkway, and have vigils at locations where car drivers kill pedestrians or bicyclists. Maureen Persico, Scott Feeney, and Brett Bertocci relate. https://www.safestreetrebel.com 32:29 Architect, urbanist Mike Eliason, founder of Larchlab, o...

A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets. Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook. Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous "Boulevard of Death," Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a "Boulevard of Life" aft...

The founder of Pedal People, Ruthy Woodring, talks trash and bike repair. Chicago Family Biking founder Rebecca Resman and Streetsblog editor John Greenfield on the killing of a 3 year old on her mother's bike in a street with a bike lane. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/female-toddler-reportedly-killed-in-truck-bike-crash-on-leland-greenway-in-uptown/ http://www.chicagofamilybiking.org/ ht...

Robin Chase, Executive Chairwoman of New Urban Mobility and founder of Zipcar, talks about the future of bikes with Bike Talk co-host Andrea Learned in June, 2021.

Scott Epstein is an active transportation progressive running for the powerful position of Council District 5 representative in Los Angeles. In this interview with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols, Scott lays out his priorities: ending homelessness, addressing the Los Angeles housing/affordability crisis, and taking local action on climate change. Epstein is able to connect all these with active tr...

A ribbon cutting for the new segment connecting Pittsfield to Adams along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Western Massachusetts. https://www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/State-Local-Officials-Cut-Ribbon-for-Pittsfield-Rail-Trail-Extension.html 47:00 Butch Flowers, a farmer and handyman in the hill towns of Massachusetts, on his plan to ride from Portland to Massachusetts this summer.

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. https://a43.asmdc.org/ New York City's Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mil...

Kicking off Bike Month and new car-free days on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. With Galen Mook, Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition baystatebikemonth.org Massbike.org 2:15 They know in the Netherlands that making streets safe means controlling cars. Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy Communications Manager and author of Building the Cycling City a...

Elena Huisman, a voice for bicycle infrastructure with “Main Street for everyone” and “Safe Streets Northampton,” talks about bike events, benefits, politics, infrastructure, and biking safely in Northampton, Massachusetts. https://mainst4everyone.org/ 8:45 Galen Mook and Ken McLeod discuss Massachusetts’ new #1 Bicycle Friendly State ranking with the League of American Bicyclists. Ken is the Leag...

Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cycling Federation, on her advocacy for biking and reducing oil dependency in Europe--with cohost Lindsay Sturman. https://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 bikeability. https:...

The Bike Summit and how the climate movements needs to wake up about (e)bikes with Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists and Galen Mook, cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition: https://www.bikeleague.org/ 13:29 Emily stein, president of Safe Roads Alliance, on Global Road Safety Week Relay ride/walk/run across Massachusetts- ht...

Connecticut's SB4, a climate action bill, would give people vouchers to buy ebikes. Dr. Allie Thomas, an ebike researcher, supports it. https://planning.unc.edu/2021/10/e-biking-as-a-tool-for-parents-and-caretakers/ @ 24:25-Warren Wells on his tweet about having to differentiate between recreation and transportation for bike trips: https://twitter.com/WarrenJWells/status/1504514239301513234?s=20&t...

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is hosting a Bike Salon to support making LA more bikeable. Attendees can sign the Healthy Streets LA Petition to implement LA's mobility plan whenever streets are paved. Taylor Nichols talks with LACBC E.D. Eli Akira Kaufman and Senior Development Manager Genevieve Cerda, Santa Monica Spoke President and Co-Founder Cynthia Rose, and Pure Luck Cycles/Maveri...

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. https://www.calbike.org/calbike-opposes-ab-371/ "2 Wheeled Wolf" blogger Wolf Simpson...

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. https://mainst4everyone.org/ http://fntrails.org/ https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.gazettenet.com/Driver-who-struc...

The Netherlands: The Estonian ambassador rides a bike as his official diplomatic vehicle. Lauri Kuusing talks about that and the impact of the Ukraine situation with Lindsay Sturman. https://twitter.com/LKuusing/status/1494332848790069261?s=20&t=dwBx54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ @12:34: California: Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, talks to Taylor Nichols about the H...

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: https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/01/24/councilmember-raman-making-good-on-pledge-to-expand-bike-infrastructure/ -with Lindsay Sturman, cohost. @ 19:55: @EmFriedenberg, @esoxeneco, and @JCRiecke on thei...

The Estonian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Lauri Kuusing, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Ukraine and biking as a diplomat. https://twitter.com/LKuusing/status/1494332848790069261?s=20&t=dwBx54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ

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. https://www.healthystreetsla.com/ https://streetsforall.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton. @ 19:45- Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield talks with Eben Weiss, aka Bike...

A University of Illinois at Chicago report found racial and ethnic disparities in who speed/red light cameras catch breaking traffic laws. What can be done about it? Chicago Streetsblog co-editor John Greenfield interviews UIC professors Dr. Stacey Sutton and Dr. Nebiyou Tilahoun, authors of the report, for Bike Talk. John's article on their report and the ProPublica study: https://chi.streetsblog...

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. https://streetsforall.org/ Then-New Year's resolutions from a #bikeTwitter perspective with Nick (AKA John Forester's Worst Nightmare). https://twitter.com/C_rless Edited by Kevin Burton

Deliveristas Unidos organizes New York City bike delivery workers for a livable wage and the right to organize, in addition to some other basic protections. An organizer named Josh talks to Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director. Edited by Kevin Burton. Then-Megan Ramey of Hood River, Oregon talks about starting a bike train for parents dropping their kids off at school, Bike Twitter, and her bik...

John Bauters, The Mayor of the City of Emeryville, California, campaigned on a platform that supported 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 Streetsblog Calif...

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 focus of racial equity organiz...