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06:28-Nithya Raman, incandescent candidate for LA's Council District 4, on homelessness, protected lanes, and the excitement of a local LA CD race people care about more than any in recent history. www.nithyaforthecity.com 25:34-Cynthia Rose, President of Santa Monica Spoke, talks about Santa Monica's amazing new protected bike lanes: https://www.santamonica.gov/press/2020/10/14/city-council-adopts-plan-to-bring-more-protected-bike-lanes-to-santa-monica?fbclid=IwAR1PJv-V6KqZ1U_ICHSOIpGbacPRKNogogrFTTZs8o4fz29_s02LlPZmw8o With Colin Bogart, former LACBC Education Director, current Pasadena Complete Streets steering committee member and Day One Program Coordinator, and Ryan Mekenian, Director of The Spokespeople. https://vimeo.com/419346871 PS-KPFK's in trouble. Please learn more and support our host station at this page: kpfk.wedid.it/campaigns/8079/1602

Listener, If you believe in what we do, please consider donating to our host station in their time of need, here: https://kpfk.wedid.it/campaigns/8079/1602 Our guests and topics this episode: 0-Dave Snyder, Executive Director of CalBike, on the pandemic version of their annual fundraising Dream Ride. https://www.cadreamride.org/ 23:10-Ollie Oliver on how he pisses off drivers by riding his cargo bike legally https://nypost.com/.../bicyclist-pisses-everyone-off-by.../ https://twitter.com/Ollie_Cycles 49-Eric Ochoa contemplates a segment on route sharings. https://twitter.com/Eric8a92 55:45-LA cyclist Lynn Ingram's Woman on the Street update on riding in LA during the pandemic https://www.facebook.com/lynningram777 101:27-"WE THE PEOPLE: BLACK LIVES ROLL'EN:" Yolanda Davis-Overstreet on the topic, "What's Justice Got To Do With It?" with guests Channing Martinez, Director of Organizing Labor/Community Strategy Center and Producer of Voices from the Frontlines on KPFK/Pacifica Radio--https://twitter.com

A discussion with Better Cities Film Festival Director Josh Paget and guests about short film entries in the Bicycling & Cities category. https://bcff2020.eventive.org/welcome.

Nick and Don talk with Alexandria Contreras, candidate for Downey City Council District One (www.alexfordowney.com/). She's working to unseat the pro-freeway Mayor of Downey, and speaks about the injustice (environmental, economic, and racial) of Metro and Caltrans' planned removal of 200 homes to widen the 605 freeway. With LA Streetsblog editor Joe Linton.

Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet interviews Adé Neff, founder of Ride On! Bike Shop/Co-Op, a full-service worker-owned bike shop directly in the heart of South LA's Leimert Park in her latest edition of We The People-Black Lives Roll 'En.

Nick and Don talk with Alexandria Contreras, candidate for Downey City Council District One (https://www.alexfordowney.com/). She's working to unseat the pro-freeway Mayor of Downey, and speaks about the injustice (environmental, economic, and racial) of Metro and Caltrans' planned removal of 200 homes to widen the 605 freeway. With LA Streetsblog editor Joe Linton. Then-a rousing discussion about bike-related entries in the Better Cities Film Festival, open through 10/11 at https://bcff2020.eventive.org/welcome. If you see one of the, please join our zoom A 20% DISCOUNT CODE IS GIVEN to listeners for Bicycling & Cities (https://watch.eventive.org/.../play/5f50eb1e1537cc0045f6c25d) Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet interviews Adé Neff, founder of Ride On! Bike Shop/Co-Op, a full-service worker-owned bike shop directly in the heart of South LA's Leimert Park in her latest edition of We The People-Black Lives Roll 'En.

0- Deputy Public Defender and organizer with Ground Game (https://www.groundgamela.org/)Ace Kitano breaks down how cyclist Dijon Kizee was executed at the end of a string of events which began with a minor violation. 32:08- Ca. State Senator Scott Weiner and Laura Friedman on their triumphant passage of SB 288, which exempts environmentally beneficial projects like bike lanes from costly and time consuming CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) requirements. This interview includes a heads up on the frightening, ignorant attacks on Weiner from Q-anon types for his closing of an antiquated anti-gay legal loophole. 1:01:07- Michael Schneider of Streets For All summarizes his article on the backroom snuffing out of the inspirational Uplift Melrose project(https://medium.com/@michaelschneider_5797/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-in-los-angeles-11bbb952fd92), the incomplete streets views of some LA Council Members, and his virtual happy hour with LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds. 1:28:08- Eric Ochoa's Sports Report

Don Ward & Nick Richert interview Jimmy Lizama, Founder of LA's seminal Bike Kitchen. Jimmy is the owner and head mechanic of Relámpago Wheelery, a bike shop across the street from his LA Ecovillage home. Jimmy touches on the kinds of connections to community that his work with bikes has been about, and shares his thoughts on a recent LA Times article which views DTLA through the lens of his role as messenger/owner of Don't Shoot The Bicycle Messenger: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-27/downtown-la-survive-covid-19-pandemic Yolanda Davis-Overstreet interviews World Bicycle Relief's M&E Director Alisha Myers in this segment of her 'We The People: Black Lives Roll 'En' series. Alisha discusses how she made a life and found a global community with bikes: https://worldbicyclerelief.org/(29:25). Don and Nick interview the Chair of the Santa Clarita Valley Bicycle Coalition, Nina Moskol, who gives us a little history and shares routes for navigating her city by bike. Nina is currently working o

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