Bike Talk

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

Melissa and Chris Bruntlett share the Netherlands model of reducing cars to create livable cities. Their new book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives is available at https://www.modacitylife.com/curbing-traffic

Bowinn Ma on how riding a cargo ebike has helped build accessibility and trust with constituents while informing her role as MLA and Minister of State for Infrastructure in North Vancouver-Lonsdale, British Columbia. https://twitter.com/BowinnMa

The Bicycle Mayor Network by Amsterdam-based BYCS.org is a global initiative which promotes the bicycle as a solution to some of the most complex urban challenges. Interviews with Bike Mayors Arcy Canumay of Waterloo, Canada and Jillian Banfield of Halifax, Canada; also, Lucas Snaije, BYCS Content and Communications Manager. Plus a bike manifesto from Lindsay Sturman https://twitter.com/LindsayJS...

California Assembly Bill AB371 would require $1 million insurance for city bike shares, bike stores, and co-ops that rent bikes, and kill them all; with Dave Snyder, Calbike Executive Director. https://www.calbike.org/ Capitalism doesn't like bikes, and people on Twitter jump on this topic; with Chris Jones, author of a viral tweet at: https://twitter.com/PickledEntropy/status/1403018235277201408...

Wesley Reutimann dives into the details of Los Angeles Metro Active Transportation funding with Katie Lemmon, Manager of Transportation Planning at Metro. Wesley is the Special Programs Director at Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV), and a special host of Bike Talk. Edited by Kevin Burton

The Eagle Rock community has pleaded for years to get a complete street option along Metro's Bus Rapid Transit line in Eagle Rock. Just as they look victorious, their brand new Los Angeles CD 14 Councilmember, Kevin De Leon (former "climate champion" with aspiration to be Mayor), has written an open letter asking for more meetings. It seems the pro-short commute crowd of Eagle Rock have his ear no...

Don gives Nithya Raman a couple of suggestions for "politically easy" moves to make streets in her district safe, after the Los Angeles District 4 Councilmember updates Don on her battle to address homelessness in a humane way.

Andrea Learned interviews Zip Car co-founder Robin Chase on car independence. Robin Chase is co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. She is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introdu...

The state of bicycles in London, Ontario with its (bike) Mayor Shelley Carr. https://bycs.org/shelley-carr/

Oakland, California's DOT may rip out the city's first protected bike lane, Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell calmly explains. Sunset4All must crowdfund a protected bike lane design for Los Angeles' vital Sunset Blvd-- the heart of at least two neighborhoods on the High Injury Network, Terence Heuston exhorts. 'Bicycle drivers' oppose protected bike lanes due to various factors, Marven...

Marcel Steeman got enough votes for his bike-friendly city set to move on to the next stage at Lego Ideas. Will Denmark-based Lego take the idea and bike with it? Interviewed by Chris Bruntlett, Marketing and Communication Manager with the Dutch Cycling Embassy, author of "Building the Cycling City" and "Curbing Traffic."

Don Ward talks to Lynn Ingram, Jim Shanman, Krista Carlson, Brian Russel, and Karen Kanady, who had nothing to do.

Andrea Learned talks with Chelsea Sexton, who is well known for her EV background, but understands how eBike and EV owners can be bridged for the good of the climate action cause. This conversation is about messaging--how "once you try" either of these electric transportation options, you'll love them (and so be open to seeing bikes as part of your own mix). Chelsea Sexton writes articles and blog...

Los Angeles bike advocate Don Ward compares notes on an LA Metro board meeting at which he gave comment with Jessica Meaney and Aziz Fellague Ariouat of transportation policy advocacy group Investing in Place. At the momentous meeting the board voted to stop the 710 expansion project while moving forward with fareless transit and the 'Beautiful Boulevard' option for the bus rapid transit in Eagle...

Andrea Learned talks with Toronto-based writer Lloyd Alter about city living and the beauty of eBikes, particularly when striving to live a 1.5 degree lifestyle. https://www.treehugger.com/bikes-arent-just-transportation-they-are-climate-action-4854132 Alter has been writing for TreeHugger since 2005 on topics ranging from architecture to design, transportation, and planning. He has contributed to...