California Assembly Bill AB371 would require $1 million insurance for city bike shares, bike stores, and co-ops that rent bikes, and kill them all; with Dave Snyder, Calbike Executive Director. https://www.calbike.org/ Capitalism doesn't like bikes, and people on Twitter jump on this topic; with Chris Jones, author of a viral tweet at: https://twitter.com/PickledEntropy/status/1403018235277201408 Bicycle Transit Systems, which runs Los Angeles Metro bike share, began implementing weekly mandator...
Jul 28, 2021•57 min
Wesley Reutimann dives into the details of Los Angeles Metro Active Transportation funding with Katie Lemmon, Manager of Transportation Planning at Metro. Wesley is the Special Programs Director at Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV), and a special host of Bike Talk. Edited by Kevin Burton
Jul 19, 2021•25 min
The Eagle Rock community has pleaded for years to get a complete street option along Metro's Bus Rapid Transit line in Eagle Rock. Just as they look victorious, their brand new Los Angeles CD 14 Councilmember, Kevin De Leon (former "climate champion" with aspiration to be Mayor), has written an open letter asking for more meetings. It seems the pro-short commute crowd of Eagle Rock have his ear now that Metro's leaning to the "Beautiful Boulevard" option, which features a bike lane and slower tr...
Jul 18, 2021•51 min
Don gives Nithya Raman a couple of suggestions for "politically easy" moves to make streets in her district safe, after the Los Angeles District 4 Councilmember updates Don on her battle to address homelessness in a humane way.
Jul 18, 2021•32 min
Andrea Learned interviews Zip Car co-founder Robin Chase on car independence. Robin Chase is co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. She is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self driving cars.
Jul 17, 2021•45 min
The state of bicycles in London, Ontario with its (bike) Mayor Shelley Carr. https://bycs.org/shelley-carr/
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Oakland, California's DOT may rip out the city's first protected bike lane, Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell calmly explains. Sunset4All must crowdfund a protected bike lane design for Los Angeles' vital Sunset Blvd-- the heart of at least two neighborhoods on the High Injury Network, Terence Heuston exhorts. 'Bicycle drivers' oppose protected bike lanes due to various factors, Marven Norman reasons. Don Ward, Nick Richert, and Lindasy Sturman host. Edited by Kevin Burton. https://s...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Marcel Steeman got enough votes for his bike-friendly city set to move on to the next stage at Lego Ideas. Will Denmark-based Lego take the idea and bike with it? Interviewed by Chris Bruntlett, Marketing and Communication Manager with the Dutch Cycling Embassy, author of "Building the Cycling City" and "Curbing Traffic."
Jul 02, 2021•38 min
Don Ward talks to Lynn Ingram, Jim Shanman, Krista Carlson, Brian Russel, and Karen Kanady, who had nothing to do.
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Andrea Learned talks with Chelsea Sexton, who is well known for her EV background, but understands how eBike and EV owners can be bridged for the good of the climate action cause. This conversation is about messaging--how "once you try" either of these electric transportation options, you'll love them (and so be open to seeing bikes as part of your own mix). Chelsea Sexton writes articles and blog posts about electric cars and her views on obtaining mass adoption of the technology by the car ind...
Jun 17, 2021•45 min
Los Angeles bike advocate Don Ward compares notes on an LA Metro board meeting at which he gave comment with Jessica Meaney and Aziz Fellague Ariouat of transportation policy advocacy group Investing in Place. At the momentous meeting the board voted to stop the 710 expansion project while moving forward with fareless transit and the 'Beautiful Boulevard' option for the bus rapid transit in Eagle Rock. https://twitter.com/InvestinPlace https://twitter.com/ZizaPlanning https://www.eaglerockforwar...
Jun 15, 2021•57 min
Andrea Learned talks with Toronto-based writer Lloyd Alter about city living and the beauty of eBikes, particularly when striving to live a 1.5 degree lifestyle. https://www.treehugger.com/bikes-arent-just-transportation-they-are-climate-action-4854132 Alter has been writing for TreeHugger since 2005 on topics ranging from architecture to design, transportation, and planning. He has contributed to The Guardian, Corporate Knights Magazine, Azure Magazine, Architectural Record, and Greensource. ht...
Jun 03, 2021•52 min
Steven Mateer, Transportation Manager of Glendora, California, tells Bike Talk Cohost Lindsay Sturman how his small city embraced parklets and temporary bike lanes because of Covid, and all their businesses stayed open.
May 30, 2021•16 min
Traffic savant, cartoonist, and author Andy Singer (https://www.andysinger.com/) explains the MUTCD, 'The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (which) defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel(https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/) .’ The ‘bible’ for traffic engineers, the Manual is dangerously auto-centric, and undergoing a process o...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Lindsay Sturman interviews Lucas Snaje, Content and Communications Manager of BYCS, on his Amsterdam-based organization's work to transform cities and the world through bikes. https://bycs.org/
May 26, 2021•24 min
Don Ward and Nick Richert talk to cohost Lindsay Sturman about the connection between bikes and everything else. https://twitter.com/LindsayJS https://twitter.com/WolfpackHustle
May 21, 2021•18 min
This is the audio of the last 12 callers in the public comment period at which the Metro Planning Committee decides whether to advance the "Beautiful Boulevard" option for Metro's Bus Rapid Transit from NOHO to Pasadena. https://www.metro.net/projects/noho-pasadena-corridor/ The Beautiful Boulevard has won the endorsement of political leaders, Eagle Rock businesses, and transit users: https://www.eaglerockforward.org/coalition In contrast to the unsatisfactory options Metro originally brought to...
May 20, 2021•31 min
America Walks E.D. Mike McGinn and League of American Bicyclists E.D. Bill Nesper on 'a once in a decade or more opportunity--' the revising of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The MUTCD is at once an 'obscure' document and 'bible' for engineers, controlling bikeways, crosswalks, speed limits, and other road design features. The new administration and USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg give active transportation advocates reason to hope that the Manual will be rewritten with pedestrian...
May 18, 2021•40 min
Deborah Murphy, Urban Design + Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founder and Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of FASTLinkDTLA, a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downtown Los Angeles, and veteran rida Don Ward talk about Deborah's amazing success with getting over $278 million in grant funds for active transportation, new parks/open space and sustainable cities ...
May 07, 2021•38 min
Because defending the most vulnerable road users makes everyone safer, we talk to LA Walks Executive Director John Yi and Jared Sanchez, CalBike Senior Policy Advocate, about AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act. If made law, this would legalize mid-block crossings and crossing against traffic lights in California. THEN, Josh Cohen, a personal injury lawyer specializing in bikes, discusses the legal options for forcing DOTs and carmakers to make transportation safer.
May 06, 2021•1 hr 7 min
On 4/20, the Beverly Hills City Council unanimously voted to adopt complete streets after years of advocacy by Mark Elliot and his allies. Mark talks about this win. https://betterbike.org/ Then- Deborah Murphy, Urban Design + Planning Principal Active Transportation Planner/Designer and Grant Coordinator, Los Angeles Walks Founder and Hilary Norton, chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of FASTLinkDTLA, a Transportation Management Organization (TMO) for Downto...
May 03, 2021•53 min
An interview by Andrea Learned, climate action leadership strategist, with David Miller, former Mayor of Toronto, Director of International Diplomacy for C40 Cities, and author of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis.
May 01, 2021•33 min
Don Ward kindles wanderlust for Fresno in this discussion with Fresno County Bicycle Coalition Chair Tony Molina, past Chair Ed Smith, Vice Chair Juan Flores, and past board members T and Sara Gonzalez on the FCBC screening of Motherload, Virtual Bicycle Safety workshops, New Bikeways coming to Fresno, Bike Match, Bike Polo, and Fun Rides in Fresno. 47:20 Brendt Barbur, Founder, Director of the Bicycle Film Festival, reminisces with Don in the BFF's 20th year. 1:10:57 Lindsay Sturman interviews ...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Sophie Maerowitz on the Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition she co-founded and the resistance to a protected bike lane on Ave. C in NYC 5:30 Felicia Garcia and Joe Linton on the Beautiful Boulevard Eagle Rock Forward is trying to get Metro to adopt as it puts a Bus Rapid Transit line in Eagle Rock, facing NIMBY (not in my backyard) opposition. 15:50 cartoonist and Why We Drive author Andy Singer on the NYC, LA, and Twin Cities "block by block battles" of bike and safe streets advocates, an...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 21 min
LA Metro held its last community meeting to get the necessary public input on project environmental studies for its 18-mile-long North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project through four cities: Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and Los Angeles. Eagle Rock Forward introduced a bikeable, walkable, livable option- the "Beautiful Boulevard." https://www.eaglerockforward.org/ In response, Metro proposed a new “Refined F1 option” which "adopts some of the basic lane configuration aspects of part ...
Apr 02, 2021•3 hr 30 min
Bike Talk correspondent Lindsay Sturman interviews Chicago, IL 'biking and transit visionary' Courtney Cobbs, Co-Editor for Streetsblog Chicago. https://twitter.com/FullLaneFemme
Mar 30, 2021•38 min
The Monterey Park city council wanted to vote on spending $100 million of Measure R money on new parking structures and expanding lanes for driving. Jennifer Love Tang, an english teacher and organizer, wrote about the vote in Streetsblog LA. Jennifer consults with Charles Mahron, the Founder and President of Strong Towns and the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, and Don Kostelec, a transportation consultant and advocate in Boise, Idaho. With Nick Ric...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 6 min
BikeTalk interviews Ryan F. Allard, PhD, an entrepreneur, researcher and speaker, who lead the transport research that fed the New York Times Bestseller: "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming." Allard, now a founding climate tech fellow with On Deck, used his climate change storytelling expertise well in this lively conversation with Lindsay Sturman and Andrea Learned (https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-andrea-learned). One fun fact: the Project Dr...
Mar 25, 2021•19 min
Eagle Rock resident and Silverlake Chamber of Commerce President Natalie Friedberg tells Don Ward how her group, Eagle Rock Forward, has added a livable street option to the ones Metro gave them for its imminent Bus Rapid Transit line. Eagle Rock Forward calls its option the "Beautiful Boulevard." They've got lots of business and community support. https://www.eaglerockforward.org/
Mar 24, 2021•33 min
Lindsay Sturman and Terrence Heuston talk to David Zipper about the Ebike Act, which passed congress and would give $1500 rebates on ebikes. Other topics include transportation as an economic development tool and changing the sidewalk paradigm. Inspired by David's tweet: https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1371573014689673217?s=20
Mar 22, 2021•57 min
