Bike Talk

Steven Mateer, Transportation Manager of Glendora, California, tells Bike Talk Cohost Lindsay Sturman how his small city embraced parklets and temporary bike lanes because of Covid, and all their businesses stayed open.

Traffic savant, cartoonist, and author Andy Singer (https://www.andysinger.com/) explains the MUTCD, 'The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (which) defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel(https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/) .’ T...

Lindsay Sturman interviews Lucas Snaje, Content and Communications Manager of BYCS, on his Amsterdam-based organization's work to transform cities and the world through bikes. https://bycs.org/

Don Ward and Nick Richert talk to cohost Lindsay Sturman about the connection between bikes and everything else. https://twitter.com/LindsayJS https://twitter.com/WolfpackHustle

This is the audio of the last 12 callers in the public comment period at which the Metro Planning Committee decides whether to advance the "Beautiful Boulevard" option for Metro's Bus Rapid Transit from NOHO to Pasadena. https://www.metro.net/projects/noho-pasadena-corridor/ The Beautiful Boulevard has won the endorsement of political leaders, Eagle Rock businesses, and transit users: https://www....

America Walks E.D. Mike McGinn and League of American Bicyclists E.D. Bill Nesper on 'a once in a decade or more opportunity--' the revising of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The MUTCD is at once an 'obscure' document and 'bible' for engineers, controlling bikeways, crosswalks, speed limits, and other road design features. The new administration and USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg g...

Deborah Murphy, Urban Design + Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founder and Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of FASTLinkDTLA, a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downtown Los Angeles, and veteran rida Don Ward talk about Deborah's amazing success with getting over...

Because defending the most vulnerable road users makes everyone safer, we talk to LA Walks Executive Director John Yi and Jared Sanchez, CalBike Senior Policy Advocate, about AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act. If made law, this would legalize mid-block crossings and crossing against traffic lights in California. THEN, Josh Cohen, a personal injury lawyer specializing in bikes, discusses the legal o...

On 4/20, the Beverly Hills City Council unanimously voted to adopt complete streets after years of advocacy by Mark Elliot and his allies. Mark talks about this win. https://betterbike.org/ Then- Deborah Murphy, Urban Design + Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founder and Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commissi...

An interview by Andrea Learned, climate action leadership strategist, with David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto, Director of International Diplomacy for C40 Cities, and author of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis.

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...