Bike Talk

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...

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...