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Bike Talk

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We are a bike advocacy and culture podcast based in Los Angeles, Ca.
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Bike Talk 103020-State of the LA County Bicycle Coalition

Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the LA County Bicycle Coalition, speaks on the state of the agency, his thoughts on Ciclavia, what we should focus on in bike advocacy, and his growing love of the bicycle as an idea, and in reality. PS-KPFK's in trouble. Please support our host station at this page: kpfk.wedid.it/campaigns/8079/1602

Oct 30, 2020•53 min

Bike Talk 102320- Nithya 4 LA; Santa Monica's New Protected Lanes; Spokespeople

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_ICHSOIpGbacPRKNogo...

Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 38 min

Bike Talk 092520-Dream, Legal, Mobility Justice, and Black History Social rides

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_Cy...

Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 58 min

Bicycling & Cities Short Films

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.

Oct 13, 2020•38 min

Alexandria Contreras for Downey and LA Streetsblog's Joe Linton

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.

Oct 13, 2020•35 min

Adé Neff

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.

Oct 13, 2020•53 min

Bike Talk-100920 Better Cities

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.eve...

Oct 12, 2020•2 hr 6 min

0911 bike talk-Dijon Kizee, SB 288, Uplift Melrose Down

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 ...

Oct 10, 2020•1 hr 50 min

Bike Talk 082820-Connecting Communities with Bikes

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/stor...

Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 19 min

This American Bike, Vol. 2--Car Education Tweets

3 public service tweets by @LindsayJS- https://twitter.com/LindsayJS/status/1191176533764759552?s=20 (1:59) @tomflood1-https://twitter.com/tomflood1/status/1278762412322312194?s=20 (29:49) @QAGreenways (Mark Ostrow, interviewed by new Bike Talk reporter Eric Ochoa)- https://twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/1296119355269238784?s=20 (49:21) -with reactions by Don Ward

Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 8 min

Bike Talk - Seleta Reynolds

Streets for All hosts this happy hour discussion with LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds. Topics include equity and culture change in transportation, with questions on the killing of Uplift Melrose by a carcentric LA Councilmember, slow streets, the bike lane-enabling SB 288, and Metro's 'false choice' of Bus Rapid Transit or bike lanes in Eagle Rock, among many others. Full of ideas.

Sep 11, 2020•32 min

Bike Talk-a NC's Slow Streets; Black Lives Roll 'En; LA Lacks Leadership

Don Ward and Nick Richert interview Clint Birdsong, President of Greater Cypress Park Neighborhood Council, with volunteer Jennifer Rodriguez, on the challenge of maintaining Cypress Park's new Slow Streets. (27:08)Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet's latest installment in her series, We The People/Black Lives Roll 'En features Maya Henderson, Sustainability Professional and Environmental Justice Advocate in New Zealand and David Sylvester, author and accomplished cyclist: David is the first African-Am...

Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 40 min
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