John Bauters, The Mayor of the City of Emeryville, California, campaigned on a platform that supported affordable housing, expanding active transit infrastructure, and making Emeryville more sustainable and environmentally resilient. John bikes the talk on his 41 mile commute to Bay Area Air Quality Management District meetings, where he's the Vice Chair. Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California, did this interview specially for Bike Talk. https://sf.streetsblog.org/2022/01/19/what-can-a-...
Jan 23, 2022•58 min
California's Department of Transportation has been driver-centric until now, but with a new Complete Streets policy and active transportation advocates in the lead, it may be a new agency. CalTrans Deputy Director for Sustainability Tony Dang fields questions from Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell. With Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Then- the mobility focus of racial equity organization Equiticity is explained by its President, Olatunji Oboi Reed, in conversation with guest host ...
Jan 19, 2022•57 min
NYC delivery riders are unionizing! Workers Justice Project Director Ligia Guallpa fills us in on their demands--like the right to organize, to a living wage, and to use the bathroom at the restaurants where they work. https://losdeliveristasunidos.org/ Sarah Dylan Breuer, a writer, musician, and activist who wants an e-trike for her disability, joins Mal Webb and Kylie, Australian musicians who tour by Brompton, along with Jes Slavin, Communications Coordinator for the Massachusetts Bicycle Coa...
Jan 12, 2022•56 min
Lloyd Alter, blogger at Treehugger.org, talks about his article, "Politicians and Planners Are Missing The E-Bike Revolution" with Galen Mook, Bike Talk host and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition. Dr. Natalia Barbour, Assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, and Courtney Cobbs, E-Bike enthusiast, co-editor of Streetsblog Chicago, and Co-founder of Better Streets Chicago, talk e-bikes with Taylor Nichols of the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee. Edited ...
Dec 26, 2021•57 min
Pittsfield's Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales helped get protected bike lanes, "parklets," and safe streets implemented in his Western Massachusetts city of over 42,000. It's been an uphill ride. Glendora's Transportation Manager Steven Mateer talks with Ricardo about the "Parklets" recently installed where cars used to park in his city of over 51,000, just 26 miles from Los Angeles, California. Glendora Mayor Karen Davis joins Ricardo and Steven to talk about how it's gone and t...
Dec 24, 2021•53 min
Steve Campos on cleaning Northeast Los Angeles' seminal bike co-op, the Bike Oven, after years of dysfunction. Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bike co-op in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. Luis Fernandez on finding a new space for the Bike Kitchen in Dorchester, another Boston neighborhood. Amber Drea, a Streetsblog Chicago reporter, on the North Lawndale Bike Box, a new community cycle shop in a shipping container. Edited by Kevin Burton
Dec 11, 2021•34 min
Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bicycle co-op in Boston, Mass., on winter riding. Galen Mook, co-founder of Common Wheels and Executive Director of Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, on Updating Massachusetts' hands free law to include apps like Facetime. http://www.commonwheels.org/ With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling and transit, and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport...
Dec 11, 2021•41 min
Lindsay Sturman interviews Maurits Lopes Cardozo, a designer of solutions for bicycle networks at Bike Minded; Chase Engelhardt, Policy Analyst & Organizer with Climate Resolve; and Laura Shepherd, an organizer for Transportation Alternatives in New York City. Edited by Kevin Burton
Dec 05, 2021•51 min
The combination of bikes and public transit with Netherlands “bike train guru,” Roland Kager https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/network/members/item/roland-kager and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles Metro https://www.metro.net/riding/bike-transit/. Lindsay Sturman, Bike Talk cohost, interviews. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Nov 25, 2021•47 min
On the 2021 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Babs Owca, with Half Acre Cycling, remembers fellow rider Adé Hogue, whose death by car and subsequent ghost bike vigil brought traffic to a standstill in Chicago. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2021/11/03/during-ghost-bike-vigil-100s-of-mourners-occupied-intersection-where-ade-hogue-was-killed/ "Grandma Beverly" Shelton tells the story of her 5 year old grandson, who was killed in a car crash in 2009. Beverly began the Zachary Michael ...
Nov 23, 2021•50 min
The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. + Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston's Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Nov 21, 2021•45 min
Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Nov 09, 2021•32 min
Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy. https://www.ciclavia.org/ Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen "Coal-rolled" a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or ticketed. https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/10/waller-bike-crash/ Edited by Kevin Burton.
Oct 27, 2021•50 min
Dave Snyder, California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Gavin Newsom's surprising veto of two Calbike sponsored bills-- A.B. 122, the Bicycle Safety Stop, and A.B. 1238, the Pedestrian Access Bill-- and Assemblymember Laura Friedman's AB 1147, which would have created 15 minute neighborhoods and bicycle highways. Michael Schneider, Streets For All Founder, talks to Don Ward about plans to get bike infrastructure included in all new LA street design. Edited by...
Oct 23, 2021•20 min
Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, "complete streets plus," and how Victoria's City Council "just built it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s
Oct 15, 2021•32 min
Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, AB43, her point of view on safe streets, and everything. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Oct 03, 2021•24 min
After a California Bicycle Coalition report from Calbike Development Director Jenn Guitart, Wolfpack Hustle organizer/Bike Talk cohost Don Ward tells the story of the time he arranged a race between a cyclist and a Jet Blue plane, which the cyclist won. Then, Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom's desk: AB 43: Allow lower speed limits AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields AB 773...
Oct 03, 2021•36 min
Bicycle and Transit researcher Niels Van Oort is here interviewed by Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman on an overview of research into combined bicycle and transit mode: https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/overview-bicycletransit-research/ http://smartptlab.tudelft.nl/our-group/niels-van-oort Edited by Kevin Burton.
Sep 20, 2021•20 min
California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects. With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Sep 16, 2021•39 min
Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned interviews Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS.org, on how the bicycle transform cities, and cities transform the world. With emphasis on the BYCS.org "Bicycle Mayors" program in the U.S. and what these amazing volunteer leaders are doing to forward this call.
Sep 08, 2021•40 min
Sunset 4 All is crowdfunding a protected bike lane design for Sunset Boulevard, with traffic engineer Rock Miller doing the design for free. https://www.sunset4all.com/ https://twitter.com/rockmiller Rock talks with Jonathan Maus, who's seen the evolution of Portland as a bike friendly city over the past two decades in his role as the editor and founder of Bike Portland. https://bikeportland.org/ https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus With an update on Los Angeles City Council motions by Streets For ...
Sep 04, 2021•54 min
Ciclavia's back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day. https://www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21 California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition. https://www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/ https://www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/ The federal infras...
Aug 24, 2021•44 min
Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy, talks to Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned about who we plan for, planning not for cycling as it is but how it will be, how people respond to change, getting more people on bikes, decision makers on bikes, changing the narrative of cycling, overcoming barriers to getting funding for active travel, Low Traffic Neighborhoods as a term and in practice, cycle logistics and vans versus carg...
Aug 23, 2021•42 min
Bruce Donald has a long history of leading trail and greenway organizations. He was president of the nonprofit Farmington Valley Trails Council for 12 years, Chair of the Connecticut Committee of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and Chair of the Governor’s Connecticut Greenways Council. So, he knows how it’s going with greenways. https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bruce/s-nEIYGIejcu0
Aug 22, 2021•35 min
Don and Nick virtually explore bike use in Western Massachusetts with Shannon Bliven, Community Outreach and Business Development person at Valley Bike Share https://www.valleybike.org/, and Ruthy Woodring, co-founder of Pedal People, a worker's collective that hauls trash and compost in Northampton and surrounding areas. https://www.pedalpeople.coop/
Aug 18, 2021•55 min
Craig Della Penna worked in the railroad industry, and wrote a series of books on the history of old railroad lines converted to walking and biking trails. Craig also worked at the New England Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to prevent bad policy at the state and local level, “parachuting” into rail trail wars in the northeast. He is the Executive Director of the The Norwottuck Network, a non-profit org that supports the Mass Central Rail Trail. Craig is also a realtor specializing in properties nea...
Aug 13, 2021•42 min
What's in the new federal transportation bill? Cohosts Don Ward and Nick Richert asked: Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Cyclists, Mike McGinn, Executive Director of America Walks, and Kea Wilson, Senior Editor of Streetsblog USA. Edited by Kevin Burton. https://www.streetsblog.org/author/kea-wilson/ https://bikeleague.org/league-vocabulary/federal-news
Aug 10, 2021•30 min
Melissa and Chris Bruntlett share the Netherlands model of reducing cars to create livable cities. Their new book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives is available at https://www.modacitylife.com/curbing-traffic
Aug 07, 2021•42 min
Bowinn Ma on how riding a cargo ebike has helped build accessibility and trust with constituents while informing her role as MLA and Minister of State for Infrastructure in North Vancouver-Lonsdale, British Columbia. https://twitter.com/BowinnMa
Jul 31, 2021•38 min
The Bicycle Mayor Network by Amsterdam-based BYCS.org is a global initiative which promotes the bicycle as a solution to some of the most complex urban challenges. Interviews with Bike Mayors Arcy Canumay of Waterloo, Canada and Jillian Banfield of Halifax, Canada; also, Lucas Snaije, BYCS Content and Communications Manager. Plus a bike manifesto from Lindsay Sturman https://twitter.com/LindsayJS Co-hosted by Don Ward, Nick Richert, Lindsay Sturman, and Terence Heuston. Edited by Kevin Burton....
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min
