Bike Talk

Don Ward kindles wanderlust for Fresno in this discussion with Fresno County Bicycle Coalition Chair Tony Molina, past Chair Ed Smith, Vice Chair Juan Flores, and past board members T and Sara Gonzalez on the FCBC screening of Motherload, Virtual Bicycle Safety workshops, New Bikeways coming to Fresno, Bike Match, Bike Polo, and Fun Rides in Fresno. 47:20 Brendt Barbur, Founder, Director of the Bi...

Sophie Maerowitz on the Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition she co-founded and the resistance to a protected bike lane on Ave. C in NYC 5:30 Felicia Garcia and Joe Linton on the Beautiful Boulevard Eagle Rock Forward is trying to get Metro to adopt as it puts a Bus Rapid Transit line in Eagle Rock, facing NIMBY (not in my backyard) opposition. 15:50 cartoonist and Why We Drive author Andy Si...

LA Metro held its last community meeting to get the necessary public input on project environmental studies for its 18-mile-long North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project through four cities: Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and Los Angeles. Eagle Rock Forward introduced a bikeable, walkable, livable option- the "Beautiful Boulevard." https://www.eaglerockforward.org/ In response, Metro pr...

Bike Talk correspondent Lindsay Sturman interviews Chicago, IL 'biking and transit visionary' Courtney Cobbs, Co-Editor for Streetsblog Chicago. https://twitter.com/FullLaneFemme

The Monterey Park city council wanted to vote on spending $100 million of Measure R money on new parking structures and expanding lanes for driving. Jennifer Love Tang, an english teacher and organizer, wrote about the vote in Streetsblog LA. Jennifer consults with Charles Mahron, the Founder and President of Strong Towns and the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American P...

BikeTalk interviews Ryan F. Allard, PhD, an entrepreneur, researcher and speaker, who lead the transport research that fed the New York Times Bestseller: "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming." Allard, now a founding climate tech fellow with On Deck, used his climate change storytelling expertise well in this lively conversation with Lindsay Sturman and And...

Eagle Rock resident and Silverlake Chamber of Commerce President Natalie Friedberg tells Don Ward how her group, Eagle Rock Forward, has added a livable street option to the ones Metro gave them for its imminent Bus Rapid Transit line. Eagle Rock Forward calls its option the "Beautiful Boulevard." They've got lots of business and community support. https://www.eaglerockforward.org/

Lindsay Sturman and Terrence Heuston talk to David Zipper about the Ebike Act, which passed congress and would give $1500 rebates on ebikes. Other topics include transportation as an economic development tool and changing the sidewalk paradigm. Inspired by David's tweet: https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1371573014689673217?s=20

The Safety Stop Bill (AB 122), sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition, would allow California cyclists to treat stop signs like 'Yield' signs. It's the Idaho Stop Law, and research shows it improves safety. See: https://www.calbike.org/category/the_latest/?fbclid=IwAR0nikaUW6DC0kLOJrce3DjEFLkVGXTM_7HXYqR-Y3BG-o6AqJo5nAqUN6U Dave Snyder, Executive Director of California Bicycle Coalition, wi...

Claire Wemp on her popular Facebook group, "Bicycle Commuter:" https://www.facebook.com/groups/13999512559

Lindsay Sturman interviews data scientist Dr. Offer Grembek about the research on complete streets. Offer is a researcher and lecturer at the University of California Berkeley. He serves as the Co‐Director at the university’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), a research center affiliated with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley Institute of Trans...

Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council President Adriane Hoff on trying to turn a half mile of 6th St. into a community plaza, closed to car traffic. The Powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aJt_QcaUniO6kh_1iaKDf0tXpsz9SVd5dWLQL720UsA/edit#slide=id.gd91e1f37e_1_106 The Streetsblog Article: https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/02/02/koreatown-neighborhood-council-proposes-pedestri...

Ayesha McGowan on We The People: Black Lives Roll'en, created and moderated by Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet, with invited co-host Lena Williams. Ayesha, 33, is a professional cyclist for Liv Racing and an advocate for representation of people of color in the bike industry. This is WE THE PEOPLE: Black Lives Roll'en final Black History Month Conversation, but not the end of their roll'en conversatio...

Melanie Curry, Streetsblog California Editor, and Dave Snyder, CalBike Executive director, discuss the state and federal programs to subsidize e-bike purchases with Nick Richert and Don Ward. Essential Question: should I wait for a subsidy to by an ebike? Answer: Only if you want to wait two years at least. California's AB 117, authored by Tasha Boerner Horvath, which would create e-bike stimulus...

Yolanda Davis-Overstreet (Moderator) and Lena Williams (guest co-host) have a conversation with Dr. Christopher West, a recognized historian on the “Green Book.” The brainchild of postman Victor Green and first published in 1936, it was called alternately The Negro Motorist Green Book, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, and The Travelers’ Green Book over its 30-year existence. This publication offer...

Konstantine Anthony, Burbank's Sunrise movement-endorsed City Councilmember and former Burbank transportation committee chair, on transportation and climate change. https://www.instagram.com/konstantineinca/ https://twitter.com/KonstantineinCA https://www.facebook.com/empkon With Don Ward, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert

Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet and Lena Williams discuss mobility justice, black history, and bikes.

Bike Talk gives its Best Bike Advocate of 2020 Award to...Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All. Last year, Michael and Streets for all spearheaded the designation of 'slow streets' across Los Angeles. Now, slow streets are becoming permanent. Michael was also able to get LA's slow streets listed on google maps, so cars can be away and bikes directed towards them. Schneider and Streets For...

Ollie Oliver, a Jersey City cyclist famous for confronting drivers about their entitled behavior, talks about his frustrations with getting his city council to make any modifications to one of the most dangerous streets in the city. https://twitter.com/Ollie_Cycles https://newjersey.news12.com/cyclist-films-his-confrontations-with-drivers-to-raise-awareness-for-bike-safety-40756536

This week Don and Nick talk with John Jones III, founder of the East Side Riders Bike Club, with his father and co-founder, John Jones II. ESRBC is making connections with the Los Angeles community of Watts, as well as city agencies and nonprofit sponsors. The club goes above and beyond its origins as a bike club, feeding thousands of people every month, cleaning their neighborhood, and teaching k...

In this episode, Melanie Curry, editor of Cal.streetsblog.org, talks to California 43rd District Assembly Representative Laura Friedman about her appointment as new Chair of the State Assembly Transportation Committee. "New Assembly Transportation Chair Friedman has shown that she understands the perspectives and concerns of people who bike, walk, and take transit, and since she took office in 201...

Lindsay Sturman talks to Chris Brundtlett, author of Building the Cycling City and Marketing & Communication Manager of the Dutch Cycling Embassy, about the Embassy's mission to bring Dutch cycling to the world. https://dutchcycling.nl/en/ California and Pacific Northwest webinars: https://dutchcycling.nl/en/dutch-mobility-webinar-series https://islandpress.org/books/building-cycling-city

2020 wasn't all bad for bikes, as reported by Streetsblog editors Joe Linton, https://la.streetsblog.org/ and Melanie Curry, https://cal.streetsblog.org/ with Nick Richert and Don Ward.

Streetsblog reporter Kea Wilson gives us her middle American perspective on Pete Buttigieg, Biden's new Department of Transportation secretary and former South Bend Mayor. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/12/15/what-will-mayor-pete-mean-for-the-u-s-dot/ With Midnight Rida/Wolfpack Hustler Don Ward and guest host "Bad Ass" Joni Yung.

A legacy street widening project on North Hollywood's thriving Magnolia Blvd was all set to make a stretch of the street a car-centric nightmare until James Askew and the NOHO Neighborhood Council stood up. With the help of advocates like Ciclavalley (Zach Rynew), Streets For All, and Streetsblog LA, James and the NOHO NC got LA District 2 Councilmember Paul Krekorian to transform the project into...