Bike Talk

NYC delivery riders are unionizing! Workers Justice Project Director Ligia Guallpa fills us in on their demands--like the right to organize, to a living wage, and to use the bathroom at the restaurants where they work. https://losdeliveristasunidos.org/ Sarah Dylan Breuer, a writer, musician, and activist who wants an e-trike for her disability, joins Mal Webb and Kylie, Australian musicians who t...

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 Stre...

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 26 miles from Los Angele...

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 the North Lawndale Bike Box, a new community cycle...

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. http://www.commonwheels.org/ With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling and transit, and...

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

The combination of bikes and public transit with Netherlands “bike train guru,” Roland Kager https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/network/members/item/roland-kager and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles Metro https://www.metro.net/riding/bike-transit/. Lindsay Sturman, Bike Talk cohost, interviews. Edited by Kevin Burton.

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 o...

The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. + Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston's Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy. https://www.ciclavia.org/ Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen "Coal-rolled" a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or ticketed. https://www.bikelaw.com/2...

Dave Snyder, California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Gavin Newsom's surprising veto of two Calbike sponsored bills-- A.B. 122, the Bicycle Safety Stop, and A.B. 1238, the Pedestrian Access Bill-- and Assemblymember Laura Friedman's AB 1147, which would have created 15 minute neighborhoods and bicycle highways. Michael Schneider, Streets For All Founder, talk...

Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, "complete streets plus," and how Victoria's City Council "just built it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s

Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, AB43, her point of view on safe streets, and everything. Edited by Kevin Burton.

After a California Bicycle Coalition report from Calbike Development Director Jenn Guitart, Wolfpack Hustle organizer/Bike Talk cohost Don Ward tells the story of the time he arranged a race between a cyclist and a Jet Blue plane, which the cyclist won. Then, Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin...

Bicycle and Transit researcher Niels Van Oort is here interviewed by Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman on an overview of research into combined bicycle and transit mode: https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/overview-bicycletransit-research/ http://smartptlab.tudelft.nl/our-group/niels-van-oort Edited by Kevin Burton.

California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects. With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned interviews Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS.org, on how the bicycle transform cities, and cities transform the world. With emphasis on the BYCS.org "Bicycle Mayors" program in the U.S. and what these amazing volunteer leaders are doing to forward this call.

Sunset 4 All is crowdfunding a protected bike lane design for Sunset Boulevard, with traffic engineer Rock Miller doing the design for free. https://www.sunset4all.com/ https://twitter.com/rockmiller Rock talks with Jonathan Maus, who's seen the evolution of Portland as a bike friendly city over the past two decades in his role as the editor and founder of Bike Portland. https://bikeportland.org/...

Ciclavia's back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day. https://www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21 California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition. https://www.calbi...

Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy, talks to Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned about who we plan for, planning not for cycling as it is but how it will be, how people respond to change, getting more people on bikes, decision makers on bikes, changing the narrative of cycling, overcoming barriers to getting funding for acti...

Bruce Donald has a long history of leading trail and greenway organizations. He was president of the nonprofit Farmington Valley Trails Council for 12 years, Chair of the Connecticut Committee of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and Chair of the Governor’s Connecticut Greenways Council. So, he knows how it’s going with greenways. https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bruce/s-nEIYGIejcu0

Don and Nick virtually explore bike use in Western Massachusetts with Shannon Bliven, Community Outreach and Business Development person at Valley Bike Share https://www.valleybike.org/, and Ruthy Woodring, co-founder of Pedal People, a worker's collective that hauls trash and compost in Northampton and surrounding areas. https://www.pedalpeople.coop/

Craig Della Penna worked in the railroad industry, and wrote a series of books on the history of old railroad lines converted to walking and biking trails. Craig also worked at the New England Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to prevent bad policy at the state and local level, “parachuting” into rail trail wars in the northeast. He is the Executive Director of the The Norwottuck Network, a non-profit o...

What's in the new federal transportation bill? Cohosts Don Ward and Nick Richert asked: Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Cyclists, Mike McGinn, Executive Director of America Walks, and Kea Wilson, Senior Editor of Streetsblog USA. Edited by Kevin Burton. https://www.streetsblog.org/author/kea-wilson/ https://bikeleague.org/league-vocabulary/federal-news