Bike Talk

START: Adaptive Cycling: Western Massachusetts adaptive cyclists Naomi Clark and Giovanni Lynch talk with Berkshire Bike Path President Marjorie Cohan. 17:35 Bike Picture: Jerome Horne, Transit Center's Director of Transit Leadership Development, on bikes in society, with Nick Richert. 33:30 Bike Innovator: Craig Calfee, a bike builder who pioneered carbon fiber and bamboo in bike making, talks wi...

START: No Bikes Allowed: John Elliot, a musician who tours by bike, was denied entrance to Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California, because he didn't arrive by car. We got Andrew Brooks, President of the Skyline Park Citizens Association, and Kara Vernor, Executive Director of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition, to discuss what all parties acknowledge is a big mistake. 28:45 Adventures:...

START: No Healthy Streets for Los Angeles: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously not to require itself to implement its own mobility plan whenever a street is repaved. Healthy Streets LA will be on the Los Angeles ballot anyway, in 2024. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, which created HSLA, gives feedback. https://michaelschneider.medium.com/10-mobility-plan-corridors-la-shou...

START: Update: Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Directors of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, respectively, on the bike issues of the day. https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.la-bike.org/ 7:35 Road Revolution: The historic closing 2/3 of a mile of Griffith Park Drive to cars is part of Los Angeles CD4 Councilmember Nithya Raman's "Road...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/C5985nInxtDx2b3QZJSlMcOg7oI If the Los Angeles City Council votes to adopt the Healthy Streets LA initiative on 08/26/2022, the city will finally follow its own mobility plan, and add new bus and bike lanes on 1/3 of its streets. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, the nonprofit organization which created the Healthy Streets LA initiative, explains. https:...

Administrating the Massachusetts and Los Angeles County bicycle coalitions, with Executive Directors Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman. https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.la-bike.org/ *Galen hosts a Bike Talk at http://biketalk881.com/ **Edited by Kevin Burton, cofounder of the West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition. 22:13 The Bicycle Mayor of Toronto, Lanrick Bennett, Jr. on his "origin story," his d...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ApcfmJEqgCLvMTwPkcJyPEOVf8s Laura Friedman speaks on her bill, AB2438, which would get California's notoriously car-centric transportation agencies to align their funding formulas with California's values around climate change. Contact the Senate Appropriations Committee to get the bill moving forward - https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/ Check out this article: https://cal...

In A Massachusetts Minute, Nick Richert discusses Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition’s plans for biking with Galen Mook, MassBike’s Executive Director. At 3:42, Taylor Nichols interviews Los Angeles handbuilt bike afficionado Aaron Lipstadt, who details the history of bike making and the world of handmade custom bikes of today— steel, titanium, carbon, bamboo. 27:42 - Stacey Randecker on reclaiming S...

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8h2ANBZ_0xZI2ngfZ-ud9ednzhc Decades of pleas by park users weren’t enough, nor was a speeding van running over (now bike activist) Damian Kevitt and removing his leg. Now, a much-loved community elder struck and killed on a bike path in Griffith Park finally got one of the park’s roads closed to through traffic through a “temporary” yet “indefinite” pilot program. Wh...

The first Ciclovías began in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. In 2010, after immense effort by the cycling community of Los Angeles, an Open Streets event, there called CicLAvia, first took place in the heart of Downtown—and became an instant hit. Dozens of individuals and organizations have put their weight behind CicLAvia. In this episode, we speak with one of the prime movers of the city’s ongoing Ci...

Jessica Fizgerald Ruvalcava is the first recipient of an electric cargo bike from fellow Los Angeles Ecovillage member Jimmy Lizama’s “Reciclos” project. 11:45 Kyle Lucas is cofounder of Better Streets Chicago. 26:25 Stacey Rendecker was recently arrested for refusing to move while demonstrating for safe streets in San Francisco. 43:00 Lucy Maloney engages the cycling Community in Vancouver. Edite...

San Francisco's Safe Streets Rebels form "people protected bike lanes" where no safe lanes exist, hold slow rides that block car traffic on the contested Great Walkway, and have vigils at locations where car drivers kill pedestrians or bicyclists. Maureen Persico, Scott Feeney, and Brett Bertocci relate. https://www.safestreetrebel.com 32:29 Architect, urbanist Mike Eliason, founder of Larchlab, o...

A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets. Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook. Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous "Boulevard of Death," Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a "Boulevard of Life" aft...

The founder of Pedal People, Ruthy Woodring, talks trash and bike repair. Chicago Family Biking founder Rebecca Resman and Streetsblog editor John Greenfield on the killing of a 3 year old on her mother's bike in a street with a bike lane. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/female-toddler-reportedly-killed-in-truck-bike-crash-on-leland-greenway-in-uptown/ http://www.chicagofamilybiking.org/ ht...

Robin Chase, Executive Chairwoman of New Urban Mobility and founder of Zipcar, talks about the future of bikes with Bike Talk co-host Andrea Learned in June, 2021.

Scott Epstein is an active transportation progressive running for the powerful position of Council District 5 representative in Los Angeles. In this interview with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols, Scott lays out his priorities: ending homelessness, addressing the Los Angeles housing/affordability crisis, and taking local action on climate change. Epstein is able to connect all these with active tr...

A ribbon cutting for the new segment connecting Pittsfield to Adams along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Western Massachusetts. https://www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/State-Local-Officials-Cut-Ribbon-for-Pittsfield-Rail-Trail-Extension.html 47:00 Butch Flowers, a farmer and handyman in the hill towns of Massachusetts, on his plan to ride from Portland to Massachusetts this summer.

Bikeways, active transportation, climate change, and safe streets with Laura Friedman, California state Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, in conversation with Dave Snyder, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California. https://a43.asmdc.org/ New York City's Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mil...

Kicking off Bike Month and new car-free days on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. With Galen Mook, Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition baystatebikemonth.org Massbike.org 2:15 They know in the Netherlands that making streets safe means controlling cars. Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy Communications Manager and author of Building the Cycling City a...

Elena Huisman, a voice for bicycle infrastructure with “Main Street for everyone” and “Safe Streets Northampton,” talks about bike events, benefits, politics, infrastructure, and biking safely in Northampton, Massachusetts. https://mainst4everyone.org/ 8:45 Galen Mook and Ken McLeod discuss Massachusetts’ new #1 Bicycle Friendly State ranking with the League of American Bicyclists. Ken is the Leag...

Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cycling Federation, on her advocacy for biking and reducing oil dependency in Europe--with cohost Lindsay Sturman. https://ecf.com/ 18:48 Chris Bruntlett, co-author of "Building the Cycling City" and "Curbing Traffic" and Communications Manager for the Dutch Cycling Embassy, talks with Lindsay Sturman about how reducing car speed is essential to bikeability. https:...

The Bike Summit and how the climate movements needs to wake up about (e)bikes with Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists and Galen Mook, cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition: https://www.bikeleague.org/ 13:29 Emily stein, president of Safe Roads Alliance, on Global Road Safety Week Relay ride/walk/run across Massachusetts- ht...

Connecticut's SB4, a climate action bill, would give people vouchers to buy ebikes. Dr. Allie Thomas, an ebike researcher, supports it. https://planning.unc.edu/2021/10/e-biking-as-a-tool-for-parents-and-caretakers/ @ 24:25-Warren Wells on his tweet about having to differentiate between recreation and transportation for bike trips: https://twitter.com/WarrenJWells/status/1504514239301513234?s=20&t...

The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is hosting a Bike Salon to support making LA more bikeable. Attendees can sign the Healthy Streets LA Petition to implement LA's mobility plan whenever streets are paved. Taylor Nichols talks with LACBC E.D. Eli Akira Kaufman and Senior Development Manager Genevieve Cerda, Santa Monica Spoke President and Co-Founder Cynthia Rose, and Pure Luck Cycles/Maveri...

California Assembly Bill 371 "would put most, if not all, shared micromobility systems out of business." California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Dave Snyder talks about this threat and Calbike's budget request for $500 million to implement connected, protected bicycle networks with cohost Taylor Nichols. https://www.calbike.org/calbike-opposes-ab-371/ "2 Wheeled Wolf" blogger Wolf Simpson...