Bike Talk

Malibu's deadly main road, Pacific Coast Highway, needs an overhaul. Damian Kevitt, Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, makes the case. California's new speed camera legislation explained by David Sforza, Principal Consultant of the California State Assembly Transportation Committee.  US pedestrian deaths are soaring. Is it time to ban right turns on red lights? US Guardian writer Matthew Cantor, with Taylor Nichols. How to educate drivers about distracted Driving. With Emily Stein, Executive Director of Safe Roads Alliance. A human crosswalk in front of Dodger Stadium, with Annemarie Drolet, Tactical Urbanist. Bicyclist and City Manager for San Luis Obispo Derek Johnson, with Lindsay Sturman.

Detroit Greenways Coalition Executive Director Todd Scott and Santa Monica Spoke Director Cynthia Rose with cohosts Nick, Lindsay, Taylor, and Seamus on bike advocacy. Michael Schneider on Healthy Streets Los Angeles, converting a freeway to a park, and how Streets For All advocates for bike friendly politicians. 15:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/NeMZe On the study showing women have lower rates of cancer in walkable (bikeable) neighborhoods with Guardian US writer Aliya Uteuova and Taylor Nichols. 31:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/XsrZ7 San Francisco MTA Director of Sustainable Streets Tom Maguire on the controversial center-running bike lane on Valencia Street. With Seamus Garrity. 42:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/WeFFt

Fight the Power: NYC's Transportation Alternatives tries to build safe streets infrastructure despite a hostile Mayoral administration. With Alexa Sledge. Staying the Course: SF bike activists Robin Pam, Amandeep Jawa, and Sara Barz still support a center-running bike lane on Valencia Street in San Francisco. 7:09 https://on.soundcloud.com/zqDFo Not So Fast: Stacey Randecker and Luke Bornheimer reprise their perspective on Valencia Street's center-running bike lane. 24:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/g5dt4 Trails Friend: Friends of the Northampton Trails President George Kohout reports from Northampton, Massachusetts, where bike advocacy has local government on its side. 33:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/ZRLYj Critical Mass: too annoying to drivers, or just right? With Patty Wiens. 45:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/XYXa9 Honored: Eli Akira-Kaufman, Executive Director of Bike LA, describes the importance and fun of Bike Fest, California Assemblymember and candidate for the U.S. Congress Laura Friedman relays he

Intro: Bike LA's "Bike Fest" with Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA. Not Good Enough: a deadly bike lane design in SF, with Sustainable Transportation activists Luke Bornheimer and Stacey Randecker. 8:39 https://on.soundcloud.com/SBhu5 It works if you work it: a center running bike lane that works in the East Bay, with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz. 23:31 https://on.soundcloud.com/BtkZb She is the champion: multimodal, sustainable transportation advocate & Mayor of bike-friendly Santa Monica, Gleam Davis. 30:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/BtkZb Ebike Rx: Northampton, Massachusetts P.E. teacher Salem Derby talks to students about how he's healing from a knee injury using an Ebike. 45:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/qPq5m

Intro Lindsay, Taylor and Nick on the upcoming show and Taylor's triumphant return from bike-friendly Spain. Carrying Water: Eric Berger’s article on the American Sepp Kuss' victory in the Vuelta a España. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a-water-carrier-just-won-the-hardest-cycling-race-on-the-planet/ 10:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/4T4bd The Best Get Better: The end of Parking Mandates in New York City with Open Plans NYC Co-Executive Director Sara Lind. 26:40 https://on.soundcloud.com/6CoLb Rail Trails At Last: A 104 mile car free fully protected network of converted rail trails across Massachusetts, from Boston to Northampton, with rail trail warrior Craig Della Penna. 37:50 https://on.soundcloud.com/yrMCf

Pilgrimage: Taylor Nichols' walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Park It: Landscape Studies professor Reid Bertone Johnson created a playground for a day in a parking space for international parking day. 5:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/QKt7s Exercised: An interview with Andrew Leonard, the author of The NY Times Article "How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise." 15:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/MdgQi Oregon Advocate: Jenna Berman, an Active Transportation Liaison for the Oregon Department of Transportation, on the state of bicycle advocacy in Oregon. 31:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/6deUB Science: Dr. Grace Peng, a Bike activist/physicist, on why we should bike more, drive less (and more slowly). 42:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/FSj73

Cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick read listener email. 6:55 https://on.soundcloud.com/vxCdZ Into The Blue: A company redesigns cities for biking as part of making them like "Blue Zones," the places where people live longest. With Dan Burden, Director of Inspiration and Innovation, Blue Zones LLC. 28:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/5a2ZV Kindermoord, American Style: A ribbon cutting at an unprotected bike lane on a busy street prompts LA Streetsblogger Liz Schiller to ask, "Why do we love our cars more than our children?" With Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/08/15/why-do-we-love-cars-more-than-we-love-our-children 40:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/nSp8P Scooters V. Climate Change: A Lime executive discusses micromobility's inclusion in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program. Calvin Thigpen, Director of Policy Research at Lime, with Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity.

Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet. 5:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/nS5hG Redesigner: Jeff Speck, author of "Suburban Nation" and "Walkable Cities," on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols. 40:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/45DaG Regulate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Policy Director of League of American Bicyclists, interviewed by Taylor Nichols.

4:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/XNjqH Healthy Pastime: The personal and planetary health benefits of biking with scientist and Resources Chair for League of Women Voters in Los Angeles Dr. Grace Peng and Isabella Chu, Associate Director of the Data Core at Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences. By Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 32:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/eQiMF Business Bikelash: attachment to parking undermines livability and endangers a safe, healthy road design planned in Northampton, Massachusetts. With Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, and Elena Huisman, co-Founder of Main Street for Everyone. 49:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/CTsJq Yes: YIMBY Joanna Gubman connects land use, transportation, and environmentalism with bikes as Executive Director for Urban Environmentalists, a board member of the SF Bicycle Coalition, and Environmental Director at YIMBY Action. By Seamus Garrity.

3:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/wZMqa Here, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City," and "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." By Lindsay Sturman. 32:57 https://on.soundcloud.com/BkV3v Show Me the Way: On bike tourism and the Western New England Greenway, with Dan McGuinness and Tom O' Brien. By Lily Hoffman-Strickler. 45:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/2P4aJ Static Motion: "Bike scribble" artist Kathleen King Page's bike sculptures, murals, and canvasses are featured across the country. With Lily Hoffman-Strickler.

7:22 https://on.soundcloud.com/Eix9J Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick. 18:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/2C5iE Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what's being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler. 28:45 https://on.soundcloud.com/8zxgn Picture if You Will: The Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts has big ideas for biking in the already bike friendly town. Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra With Director of Planning & Sustainability Carolyn Misch, Pedal People co-founder Ruthy Woodring, and Nick Richert. 41:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/8zxgn Talk to Me: Pablo Lebidensky writes about mobility in Buenos Aires, and talks with Nick about it. 51:37 https://on.soundcloud.com/2TvN7 Spokes 'N Stuff: Bike mechanic Manny Alvarado on the basics of maintenance. Also: Burning Man vet Ves gets his bike tuned. With Taylor Nichols.

Magnus White's not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling's LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. https://linktr.ee/trashpandacycling 13:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/Umnsp Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike's Kevin Claxton. https://www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ 35:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/Srv9m RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with "Shift" documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer, and RAGBRAIder Shem Bitterman, with Taylor. https://ragbrai.com/documentary/

Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver's City Council, ABC ("A Better City"), ripped out iconic Stanley Park's protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there's always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick discuss whether political ideology correlates to attitudes towards active transportation. 17:28 https://on.soundcloud.com/V9DvY Front Lines: Lawsuits against NYC congestion pricing, higher registration fees for heavier vehicles, and backtracking by Mayor Adams on a safer McGuiness Boulevard, from Transportation Alternatives' Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge. 30:25 https://on.soundcloud.com/Pv92w Sidelined: The US Department of Transportation created a report that recommended mandating truck sideguards to protect vulnerable road users from getting dragged and crushed. The truck industry was given the report, and pressured the USDOT to chang

0:00 Trash Talk: A recent listener email objected to Bike Talk's interview with Bike Mapper Jaimy Fisher because she didn't use Strava data that included MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra). Original interview at: on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y. This, according to our listener, constituted "Trash Talking MAMILS." Cohosts Taylor, Lindsay, Madeleine, Seamus & Nick do some introspecting, and find that we do indeed love MAMILs. 12:08 https://on.soundcloud.com/5JULK Class Trip: MAMIL Taylor Nichols takes a 3-day tour of Michigan's TART trail with some old high school friends. https://traversetrails.org/ 21:40 https://on.soundcloud.com/hAi5f EMT Advocate: Tyler Newcomb, bike advocate, EMT, board member of Bike Jersey City and Safe Streets Jersey City, on his journey to bike advocacy. With San Francisco activist Stacey Randecker. https://twitter.com/tylernewcomb_ 35:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/6CXZc Lit: The twilight world of lit up bikes, as told by Lit Riderz Jay Torrisi and April Stom with Reo Ramsey, owner of RK Mo

0:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/HyxjJ Lucas Rowton, mountain bike racer and bike mechanic, gives some advice on chains and flats. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/S7akZ LA Times Art and Design Columnist Carolina Miranda on her article, "Build less housing for cars and more for people," with Taylor Nichols. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-07/build-less-housing-for-cars-and-more-for-people-how-cities-of-the-past-can-guide-the-future 26:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/GMAvD Inbar Kishoni, Manager of Community and Equity Programs on the Citi Bike team at Lyft, on car dominance and bike share with Joshua Funches of National Youth Bike Council. 41:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/Af3rb State of the art thinking about safety from two Pittsfield, Massachusetts leaders in street design: Public Utilities Commissioner Ricardo Morales and Berkshire Regional Planning Commission Senior Transportation Planner Nick Russo. With Western Massachusetts Bike Talk guest correspondent Lily Hoffman Strickle

A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Ecovillage. Lois Arkin produced the event, and was presented with the Bike Talk Lifetime Bike Advocacy Supporting Role award for cofounding the LA Ecovillage. Ecovillagers had roles in starting the Bike Kitchen, LA County Bike Coalition (now BikeLA), and CicLAvia. The Panel consisted of Executive Director of LA Walks and candidate for California Assembly, John Yi; the ED of BikeLA, Eli Akira Kaufman; the founder of the Bicycle Kitchen, Jimmy Lizama; Biking Attorney and former LA County Bicycle Coalition Board Member Josh Cohen; and current Bicycle Kitchen Board Member Peter Choi. Moderated by Nick Richert, Seamus Garrity, Taylor Nichols, and Don Ward.

14:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/AfXTA Bike Night: A bike rodeo and other bike events sharpened the skills and whet the appetites of children at North Adams, Massachusetts' "Pedal 2 The Metal" event, with Jessi Byrne, Health & Wellness Coordinator of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and Nick Russo, Senior Planner of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. 20:39 https://on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y Bike Data: Strava's bike data through an equity lens as interpreted by Canadian researcher Jaimy Fisher, with Madeleine Bonsma-Fischer. 37:46 https://on.soundcloud.com/vWG7Y Bike Action: Discussing Safe Street Rebel's bike protests and direct actions in San Francisco with Aditya Bhumbla and Stacey Randecker, by Taylor Nichols.

:23 https://on.soundcloud.com/EXosA Chicago's Bike Grid Now uses 4 mph "Slow Jam" rides to demand slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. Chicago Bike Grid Now member Rony Islam speaks with cohosts Nick, Taylor, and Seamus. 12:37 https://on.soundcloud.com/QQxTC Bike philosophy, the differences between biking in NYC and LA, and bike advocacy in 3 short interviews by Seamus Garrity with Allez LA co-owners Kyle B. Kelley and Shawn Wolf, and patron/Los Feliz Neighborhood Councilmember Aida Ashouri. 24:32 https://on.soundcloud.com/gJDT3 How can a global nonviolent movement to compel the world's governments to address the climate and ecological emergency use bikes in their actions? Josh Goldstein of Extinction Rebellion LA interviews LA Bike Oven mechanic and bike advocate Joe Borfo on exactly that question. 42:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/4msrB "Guerrilla bike activists" of the Crosswalk Collective in Los Angeles and The People's CDOT in Chicago take infrastructure into their own hands. Tony Ho Tran s

0:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/xwxnT Money Talks: Truck sideguards are proven to save lives; the League of American Bicyclists' Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker tells cohost Taylor Nichols how the USDOT chose the trucking industry over lives. 10:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/Le7gy Advocacy Roots: A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Ecovillage. Ecovillagers began the Bike Kitchen, LA County Bike Coalition (now BikeLA), and CicLAvia. This clip features Executive Director of LA Walks and candidate for California Assembly, John Yi; the ED of BikeLA, Eli Akira Kaufman; the founder of the Bicycle Kitchen, Jimmy Lizama; and Biking Attorney Josh Cohen. 28:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/B41qT Getting There: A New York City project asked people who use bikes and other small wheeled devices what they use them for and how infrastructure affects their motivations and needs. The project also recruited over three dozen volunteers to ride

0:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/MuEKS Easy Does: Father's Day was the New Orleans Big Easy Bike Festival. Details from Bayou Queens and Bayou Cruisers Bike Club President Hardy Elzy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1765096107047285/ 7:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/3NNrL Decongest: congestion pricing nears approval in NYC; how and why with energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental activist Charles Komanoff. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinion/traffic-new-york-congestion.html 43:40 https://on.soundcloud.com/FNeCs Easy Riders: a high school group recounts their bike camping tour of Western Massachusetts. With Northampton High bike tour coach and math teacher Brant Jones. Editing by Taylor Nichols and Mitchell Bove. Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb. Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward. Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.