Bike Talk

1:21 https://on.soundcloud.com/eVUsi Alternative Vision: an update on campaigns of NYC safe streets advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives including Sammy's Law and 25x25, with Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge. 12:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/FjXdn Hunger for Justice: A hunger strike to get the NY State Assembly to pass Sammy's Law for locally set speed limits by Famili...

1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/RfwA2 Connected: A car-free path providing critical connections between the Riverfront and Detroit destinations recently opened in Detroit. Marc Pasco, Director of communications for the Detroit Riverfront and Conservancy, tells Taylor, Lindsay, and Nick about the recently opened Southwest Greenway. https://detroitgreenways.org/projects/southwest-greenway/ 5:24 https...

:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/76wUv The Price of Parking: Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar explains how parking ruins cities. With Taylor Nichols. 20:11 https://on.soundcloud.com/2KW2w London Calling: journalist and Spokesmen podcaster Carlton Reid on how London, like Paris, makes driving inconvenient, and why that's necessary to increase bike, pedestrian, and transit modeshare, for a more livea...

1:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/tqsbL His Turf: John Jones III, East Side Riders President, at CicLAvia Mini. 5:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/P7mpZ Critical Comeback: Vancouver's conservative city council uses dedicated bike funds to remove a protected bike lane. In response, Vancouver's Critical Mass has come back. With Lucy Maloney and Rob Zomber. 19:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/FVFKc What you don...

Intro Bike Month happenings with Detroit Motown Trailblazers Founder Reo Ramsay, Los Angeles CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, and Berkshire Bike Path Council President Marjorie Cohan. With cohosts Seamus Garrity, Nick Richert, and Taylor Nichols. 18:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/xWmMo Life or Liberty: AB 645 would install speed cameras in California cities, including San Francisco and Los...

Intro Bike Month: What's happening May, Bike Month, in Santa Monica, Detroit, and Northampton, Massachusetts; cohosts Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert get a rundown with Cynthia Rose, Director of Santa Monica Spoke, Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, and Elena Huisman, Board Member of Friends of Northampton Trails. 15:19 https://on.soundcloud.com/YT...

5:13 on.soundcloud.com/mJcC1 Bike Wars: Seamus Garrity interviews Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider on Los Angeles's misleading claims about its progress towards Mobility Plan 2035, and the ballot measure that would force the city to implement its plan. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/13/astonishing-city-planning-department-mobility-plan-status-repor...

2:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/gjUub Violence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city's pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team. 21:59 https://on.soundcloud.com/nW5By Lives Above All Else: Columbus, Oh...

1:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/aUw3u This is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass Central Rail Trail, here gives Bike T...

2:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/ocg3p Wild and Free: A girl tames a big-kid bike in "Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike," by bestselling children's book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story. 19:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/7e3vN No Time For Losers: Pittsfield's City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on the Novem...

1:19.70 https://on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3 Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an "adjacent" Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride's sponsors. 16:01 https://on.soundcloud.com/V...

1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/FLPQ1 Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost Sea...

The unedited conversation between Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley, Lucy Maloney of https://lovethelane.ca/, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales, and https://www.slowstreets.us/ founder Luke Bornheimer from this episode: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-please

2:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/LMwkX Bike Lit: UK Professor Dr. Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black experience in cycling and his book, "Desire, Descrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling," with Nick Richert 30:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/6oZSt Riding in Their Footsteps: David Goodrich on his book, "On Freedom Road," about his bike tour along the route of the Underground Railroad, his b...

Transcript: bit.ly/3Zc52em 1:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/92anJ Gold Standard: Queens' 34th Avenue open street is the open street other open streets emulate. Jim Burke, a 34th Ave Volunteer Leader, talks to Nick Richert. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/oiwXe SF Intersection: Open streets and housing in San Francisco with Robin Pam, Parent Organizer and Founder at Kid Safe SF, and Annie Fryman, Dir...

Transcript: bit.ly/3n6xEIF 1:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/kzP8k Advocates' roundabout: A forum of people fighting for protected bike lanes, with Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley for Hopkins, Lucy Maloney in Vancouver for Stanley Drive, and Ricardo Morales in Pittsfield for North Street. Also, Luke Bornheimer, San Francisco Advocate, for the website https://www.slowstreets.us/. Unedited intervie...

Transcript: bit.ly/40mUafj Intro: Seamus and Don at the San Fernando Valley CicLAvia 0:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXEK4 Counsel: Los Angeles' City Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman at CicLAvia on biking, the need to get people out of cars, and what can get the LA City Council to implement the City's mobility plan. With Seamus Garrity. 13:14 https://on.soundcloud.com/CFyTx Beautiful d...

Transcript: bit.ly/3JWrQKS Intro: Nick, Seamus, and Taylor introduce San Franciscan Luke Bornheimer, who recently started the slow streets resources website at https://www.slowstreets.us/. Also, Seamus' celebrity encounter with America's Bike Mayor, John Bauters. 2:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/gKuom Active TO: The longest street in the world, Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, has a world class comp...

Transcript: bit.ly/3yWgK1V Intro: Seamus, Lindsay, Nick and Taylor 1:06 https://on.soundcloud.com/uUTZK Burbank Does Bike: Councilmember Nikki Perez, who ran a progressive urbanist campaign and received more votes than any CM in Burbank's history, on engaging communities in active transportation - with Seamus Garrity. 13:59 https://on.soundcloud.com/7qVmZ Taking the Lane: The anti-bike lane drivis...

Transcript: bit.ly/3Z6S3L1 Intro: Taylor Nichols, Seamus Garrity, and Nick Richert 0:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/kKbcR Safe? No. Why? Cars: Dr. Anne Lusk talks to Seamus Garrity about her article, "Is cycling safe? In many cases, the answer is no," in the Harvard Gazette. 22:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/oJc9R Bikes4Ukraine: Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize, talks from Kyiv with...

Transcript: bit.ly/3LIdy1z Intro: Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols share their audio and thoughts from the January 21 Die-in to protest traffic deaths at Los Angeles City Hall. With Seamus Garrity. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/01/23/safe-streets-advocates-stage-die-in-at-l-a-city-hall-to-protest-record-traffic-deaths/ 12:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/Wh3yu Getting Through: Damian Kevitt, found...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/s1rRtJ2j5QFloFadq6MQutN0Ao8 Intro Taylor Nichols, Seamus Garrity, Jenni Chang, and Nick Richert talk about the day's die-in and preview this episode. 4:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/1ickS Standout Service: Reflections on a superlative record of active transportation and safe streets legislation with Laura Friedman, California's 43rd District Assembly member and Transp...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/KNv0EDw-V9PiOYI848uY9zraF4o Intro Seamus, Nick and Taylor preview today's stories. 1:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/xmoyU Who'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. Lin...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/JvAoa41NsnVMU5LJdXydAyd07uM Intro Seamus, Galen, Taylor, and Nick preview today's stories. 2:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/Cgttm Bike Priority: San Francisco's California State Senator Scott Wiener on why we need but don't have complete networks of bike lanes, and the unfortunate car-centricity of society. With Seamus Garrity and Stacey Randecker. 19:19 https://on.sou...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/hOrsm6H1fzhBLr0YgxF7c-AbD9A Intro 1:47 https://on.soundcloud.com/P7GpD Good, Bad, and Ugly: Streetsblog Los Angeles Editor Joe Linton wraps up Los Angeles transportation for 2022. 28:14 https://on.soundcloud.com/yKQ4g Duty Calls: Bike Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, Vivian Ortiz explains her role to Massachusetts Bike Coalition Executive Director Galen Mook. 38:38 ht...