Bike Talk

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...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Rwian2DHK9tPikP4Ng6_p1U5hB0 Intro Taylor Nichols and Nick Richert 1:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/mVj9p Mixed Holidays: Christmas Wishes, recorded by Lynn Ingram at the Mixed Race ride. 3:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/JGZ2g Fresh Start: Hugo Soto-Martinez talks with Bike Talk host Seamus Garrity about becoming the new Los Angeles Council District 13 representative, and...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/zOU_a6vI0-1CFoPh7zTKNfxZOl8 START Intro 2:17 https://on.soundcloud.com/uJzbW Slow Down: In a victory for people who use their own power to move, San Francisco organizers got slow streets made permanent. Taylor Nichols interviews Robin Pam of KidSafeSF, Jess Jenkins and Molly Hayden of Page Slow Street, and Sara Barz of Slow Hearst. 19:49 https://on.soundcloud.com/Pci...

START Intro with Taylor Nichols, LA City District 5 Bicycle Advisory Committee Representative. 3:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/zBSL1 Bike Strike: Alejandra Rios and Nick Stewart-Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles academic workers, on the use of the bicycle as an organizing tool in their ongoing labor strike. 12:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/Q3G3E Bike Club Grads: Edwin and Ryan, members...

START Intro: Lindsay Sturman, Taylor Nichols, and Nick Richert 3:25 on.soundcloud.com/vxvXG Roads Kill: Emily Badger on her viral NY Times Article, "The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths," and how American Foreign Service agents are more likely to be killed by cars at home than overseas. Taylor Nichols interviews. 32:52 on.soundcloud.com/RcB8E Catch-22: Miriam Pinsky on her a...

START Global Connections: At Bike Lab, a DIY workshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for projects in Trinidad and Haiti. 8:47 https://on.soundcloud.com/HppWE BFF: The Bicycle Film Festival's Founding Director, Brendt Barbur, interviewed by Taylor Nichols. 27:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/27tvN Windshield Bias: NYC bicyclist lawyer Adam White tells how he was thrown in...

START School Bus: a bike bus run by P.E. teacher Sam Balto in Portland, OR has been emulated and celebrated in social media. Interviews with Bus volunteers and Portland Bike Loud members Cathy Tuttle and Paul Buchanan. 10:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/f3CCj The Oven Is Open: after years of hanging on by a thread, the Bicycle Oven collective of Northeast Los Angeles is back. Joe Borfo shares his tho...

START Happy Trails: friends of non-Internal Combustion Engine transportation converged at the MassTrails conference last Saturday. MassBike E.D. Galen Mook interviews Namrit Kapur of HubLove. https://www.masstrailsconference.com/ 6:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/d8UzS Almost here: Eli Kaufman on Sunset 4 All’s years-long effort of making 3.2 miles of iconic Sunset blvd a 2-way protected bike lane, t...

START Our Champions: an Assemblymember from urban Los Angeles and a Representative of a primarily small-town Massachusetts district are fighting for safe streets and biking in similar ways. California's 43rd Assemblymember and Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman wrote the revolutionary legislation that ended parking minimums near transit in the state of Califlornia. If that weren't enoug...

START Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition E.D. Galen Mook on safe streets-related ballot questions 1 (the "Fair Share Amendment") and 4 (driver licenses for undocumented immigrants) in the Massachusetts election. 2:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/3DJwQ Road Kill: Prop "J" would keep The Great Walkway and JFK Drive in San Francisco car free for community; Prop "I" would steal smiles from children. Zach Li...

START Stay Car Free: San Francisco will vote on whether to keep JFK Drive car free November 8th. Stacey Randecker interviews Prop J organizer Zachary Lipton. https://sf.streetsblog.org/2022/08/30/save-the-j-f-k-promenade-vote-yes-on-measures-j-and-n-and-no-on-i/ 2:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/Ca8SL In Closing: Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin has been a friend to Los Angeles bikes and pedestri...

START No Free Parking: California reverses its policy on parking minimums, and parking reformer Tony Jordan is celebrating with Lindsay Sturman. parkingreform.org/los-angeles-party/ 11:25 on.soundcloud.com/Be13k Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail: California Senator Anthony Portantino's newly signed "Plan For The Future" law requires cities and counties to include bicycle and pedestrian plans, multimodal...

START Lay it Out: Rony Islam and Daniel Streicher on Bike Grid Now's tactics (Bike Jams, Bike Buses, Jamapalooza) and goal (10% of Chicago streets capped at 10mph). https://bikegridnow.org 20:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/mTkKm Rip It Out: Michael Podgers, Jeremy Frisch, and Kyle Lucas of Better Streets Chicago on the plan for Lakeshore Drive, a highway on Lake Michigan. With Stacey Randecker of Sa...

START Activated: John Simmerman on producing his urbanism and healthy streets podcast, "Active Towns." www.activetowns.org/articles/ 14:30 Uh-Oh, Omaha: Sarah Johnson on Carfree Midwest, her "Omaha based podcast exploring the stories, barriers and joys of getting around the midwest without a car." One barrier is the anti-bike Omaha Mayor ripping out the city's only protected bike lane despite the...

START Parallel Universe - MassBike E.D. and Cohost Galen Mook, a.k.a. Mookmaster Bikes, on the parallels in legislation between California and Massachusetts, plus the impact of "parking guru" Donald Shoup. Then- 7:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/f4WyF Shoup's On: Laura Friedman's AB 2097 (now law) will "prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residenti...

START: There's an avalanche of new bike legislation on California Governor Newsom's desk. California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry gives a reportback based on her article: https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/02/legislative-wrap-up-bills-on-bike-and-ped-safety-climate/ 26:08 In Business -Mark Sanderson owned and staffed the East Lansing bicycle shop, Velocipede Peddler, for 45 years. Now he's em...