The Safety Stop Bill (AB 122), sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition, would allow California cyclists to treat stop signs like 'Yield' signs. It's the Idaho Stop Law, and research shows it improves safety. See: https://www.calbike.org/category/the_latest/?fbclid=IwAR0nikaUW6DC0kLOJrce3DjEFLkVGXTM_7HXYqR-Y3BG-o6AqJo5nAqUN6U Dave Snyder, Executive Director of California Bicycle Coalition, with California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry, Grace Peng, Gabby Gee, and surprise guest 43rd Distr...
Mar 15, 2021•59 min
Claire Wemp on her popular Facebook group, "Bicycle Commuter:" https://www.facebook.com/groups/13999512559
Mar 12, 2021•40 min
Lindsay Sturman interviews data scientist Dr. Offer Grembek about the research on complete streets. Offer is a researcher and lecturer at the University of California Berkeley. He serves as the Co‐Director at the university’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), a research center affiliated with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies. Dr. Grembek is a member of the California Strategic Highway Safety Plan Steering ...
Mar 07, 2021•41 min
Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council President Adriane Hoff on trying to turn a half mile of 6th St. into a community plaza, closed to car traffic. The Powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aJt_QcaUniO6kh_1iaKDf0tXpsz9SVd5dWLQL720UsA/edit#slide=id.gd91e1f37e_1_106 The Streetsblog Article: https://la.streetsblog.org/2021/02/02/koreatown-neighborhood-council-proposes-pedestrianizing-sixth-street/
Mar 07, 2021•14 min
Ayesha McGowan on We The People: Black Lives Roll'en, created and moderated by Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet, with invited co-host Lena Williams. Ayesha, 33, is a professional cyclist for Liv Racing and an advocate for representation of people of color in the bike industry. This is WE THE PEOPLE: Black Lives Roll'en final Black History Month Conversation, but not the end of their roll'en conversations! Find out more about Ayesha on her website: https://www.aquickbrownfox.com/
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Melanie Curry, Streetsblog California Editor, and Dave Snyder, CalBike Executive director, discuss the state and federal programs to subsidize e-bike purchases with Nick Richert and Don Ward. Essential Question: should I wait for a subsidy to by an ebike? Answer: Only if you want to wait two years at least. California's AB 117, authored by Tasha Boerner Horvath, which would create e-bike stimulus payments, originated with a CalBike initiative. CalBike organized stakeholders in support of the bil...
Feb 25, 2021•31 min
Yolanda Davis-Overstreet (Moderator) and Lena Williams (guest co-host) have a conversation with Dr. Christopher West, a recognized historian on the “Green Book.” The brainchild of postman Victor Green and first published in 1936, it was called alternately The Negro Motorist Green Book, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, and The Travelers’ Green Book over its 30-year existence. This publication offered information for Black families traveling in racially segregated Jim Crow. This conversation taps ...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Konstantine Anthony, Burbank's Sunrise movement-endorsed City Councilmember and former Burbank transportation committee chair, on transportation and climate change. https://www.instagram.com/konstantineinca/ https://twitter.com/KonstantineinCA https://www.facebook.com/empkon With Don Ward, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert
Feb 17, 2021•57 min
Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet and Lena Williams discuss mobility justice, black history, and bikes.
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Bike Talk gives its Best Bike Advocate of 2020 Award to...Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All. Last year, Michael and Streets for all spearheaded the designation of 'slow streets' across Los Angeles. Now, slow streets are becoming permanent. Michael was also able to get LA's slow streets listed on google maps, so cars can be away and bikes directed towards them. Schneider and Streets For All tirelessly advocate for safe streets measures and projects, while working to 'flip' Neighborhoo...
Feb 14, 2021•23 min
Ollie Oliver, a Jersey City cyclist famous for confronting drivers about their entitled behavior, talks about his frustrations with getting his city council to make any modifications to one of the most dangerous streets in the city. https://twitter.com/Ollie_Cycles https://newjersey.news12.com/cyclist-films-his-confrontations-with-drivers-to-raise-awareness-for-bike-safety-40756536
Feb 07, 2021•18 min
This week Don and Nick talk with John Jones III, founder of the East Side Riders Bike Club, with his father and co-founder, John Jones II. ESRBC is making connections with the Los Angeles community of Watts, as well as city agencies and nonprofit sponsors. The club goes above and beyond its origins as a bike club, feeding thousands of people every month, cleaning their neighborhood, and teaching kids bike safety. https://www.esrbc.org/ https://twitter.com/jjonesiii4
Feb 05, 2021•56 min
In this episode, Melanie Curry, editor of Cal.streetsblog.org, talks to California 43rd District Assembly Representative Laura Friedman about her appointment as new Chair of the State Assembly Transportation Committee. "New Assembly Transportation Chair Friedman has shown that she understands the perspectives and concerns of people who bike, walk, and take transit, and since she took office in 2016, she has been unafraid to bring up those concerns, even if she’s the only one addressing them," wr...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Lindsay Sturman talks to Chris Brundtlett, author of Building the Cycling City and Marketing & Communication Manager of the Dutch Cycling Embassy, about the Embassy's mission to bring Dutch cycling to the world. https://dutchcycling.nl/en/ California and Pacific Northwest webinars: https://dutchcycling.nl/en/dutch-mobility-webinar-series https://islandpress.org/books/building-cycling-city
Jan 23, 2021•50 min
2020 wasn't all bad for bikes, as reported by Streetsblog editors Joe Linton, https://la.streetsblog.org/ and Melanie Curry, https://cal.streetsblog.org/ with Nick Richert and Don Ward.
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Streetsblog reporter Kea Wilson gives us her middle American perspective on Pete Buttigieg, Biden's new Department of Transportation secretary and former South Bend Mayor. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/12/15/what-will-mayor-pete-mean-for-the-u-s-dot/ With Midnight Rida/Wolfpack Hustler Don Ward and guest host "Bad Ass" Joni Yung.
Jan 13, 2021•28 min
A legacy street widening project on North Hollywood's thriving Magnolia Blvd was all set to make a stretch of the street a car-centric nightmare until James Askew and the NOHO Neighborhood Council stood up. With the help of advocates like Ciclavalley (Zach Rynew), Streets For All, and Streetsblog LA, James and the NOHO NC got LA District 2 Councilmember Paul Krekorian to transform the project into a pedestrian-friendly one. James is co-chair of the NOHO Neighborhood Council Public Safety and Bea...
Jan 12, 2021•23 min
Lindsay Sturman talks with climate action leadership strategist Andrea Learned about "Naming and Faming" influencers who actually use bikes as transportation, like Mayor Hidalgo of Paris. U.S. mayors will be the surprising validators needed to grow her #Bikes4Climate cause. https://twitter.com/AndreaLearned
Jan 08, 2021•42 min
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