START: Update: Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Directors of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, respectively, on the bike issues of the day. https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.la-bike.org/ 7:35 Road Revolution: The historic closing 2/3 of a mile of Griffith Park Drive to cars is part of Los Angeles CD4 Councilmember Nithya Raman's "Road Revolution." She and ally California 43rd District Assemblymember Laura Friedman talk about their ce...
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/C5985nInxtDx2b3QZJSlMcOg7oI If the Los Angeles City Council votes to adopt the Healthy Streets LA initiative on 08/26/2022, the city will finally follow its own mobility plan, and add new bus and bike lanes on 1/3 of its streets. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, the nonprofit organization which created the Healthy Streets LA initiative, explains. https://www.healthystreetsla.com/ bit.ly/hsla-council 9:40 - Nedra Deadwyler on her bike tours of the huma...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Administrating the Massachusetts and Los Angeles County bicycle coalitions, with Executive Directors Galen Mook and Eli Akira Kaufman. https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.la-bike.org/ *Galen hosts a Bike Talk at http://biketalk881.com/ **Edited by Kevin Burton, cofounder of the West Hollywood Bicycle Coalition. 22:13 The Bicycle Mayor of Toronto, Lanrick Bennett, Jr. on his "origin story," his daughter's "bike strike," biking with kids, and his real-time education of dangerous drivers. https:/...
Aug 09, 2022•51 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/ApcfmJEqgCLvMTwPkcJyPEOVf8s Laura Friedman speaks on her bill, AB2438, which would get California's notoriously car-centric transportation agencies to align their funding formulas with California's values around climate change. Contact the Senate Appropriations Committee to get the bill moving forward - https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/ Check out this article: https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/missed-climate-targets-misalignment-of-transportation-funding-why-califo...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min
In A Massachusetts Minute, Nick Richert discusses Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition’s plans for biking with Galen Mook, MassBike’s Executive Director. At 3:42, Taylor Nichols interviews Los Angeles handbuilt bike afficionado Aaron Lipstadt, who details the history of bike making and the world of handmade custom bikes of today— steel, titanium, carbon, bamboo. 27:42 - Stacey Randecker on reclaiming San Francisco public space with Slow Rides and JAM (Just A Minute!) Stacey also talks about the SF bi...
Jul 28, 2022•58 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/8h2ANBZ_0xZI2ngfZ-ud9ednzhc Decades of pleas by park users weren’t enough, nor was a speeding van running over (now bike activist) Damian Kevitt and removing his leg. Now, a much-loved community elder struck and killed on a bike path in Griffith Park finally got one of the park’s roads closed to through traffic through a “temporary” yet “indefinite” pilot program. Why is it so difficult for Los Angeles to implement Safe Streets, Transportation Equity, and its own m...
Jul 21, 2022•52 min
The first Ciclovías began in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. In 2010, after immense effort by the cycling community of Los Angeles, an Open Streets event, there called CicLAvia, first took place in the heart of Downtown—and became an instant hit. Dozens of individuals and organizations have put their weight behind CicLAvia. In this episode, we speak with one of the prime movers of the city’s ongoing CicLAvia program, Tafarai Bayne, as well as Jacob Wessel of the Boston DOT on plans for Open Streets e...
Jul 16, 2022•57 min
Jessica Fizgerald Ruvalcava is the first recipient of an electric cargo bike from fellow Los Angeles Ecovillage member Jimmy Lizama’s “Reciclos” project. 11:45 Kyle Lucas is cofounder of Better Streets Chicago. 26:25 Stacey Rendecker was recently arrested for refusing to move while demonstrating for safe streets in San Francisco. 43:00 Lucy Maloney engages the cycling Community in Vancouver. Edited by Kevin Burton.
Jul 15, 2022•52 min
San Francisco's Safe Streets Rebels form "people protected bike lanes" where no safe lanes exist, hold slow rides that block car traffic on the contested Great Walkway, and have vigils at locations where car drivers kill pedestrians or bicyclists. Maureen Persico, Scott Feeney, and Brett Bertocci relate. https://www.safestreetrebel.com 32:29 Architect, urbanist Mike Eliason, founder of Larchlab, on sustainable mobility and ecodistricts. With Lindsay Sturman. https://www.larchlab.com/what-we-do/ ...
Jul 04, 2022•56 min
A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets. Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook. Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous "Boulevard of Death," Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a "Boulevard of Life" after her son Asif was killed on his bike there. https://p2a.co/hHWt2A4 5 year old Zachary was killed b...
Jun 21, 2022•56 min
The founder of Pedal People, Ruthy Woodring, talks trash and bike repair. Chicago Family Biking founder Rebecca Resman and Streetsblog editor John Greenfield on the killing of a 3 year old on her mother's bike in a street with a bike lane. https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/female-toddler-reportedly-killed-in-truck-bike-crash-on-leland-greenway-in-uptown/ http://www.chicagofamilybiking.org/ https://www.facebook.com/theoneandonlyrebecca
Jun 14, 2022•56 min
Robin Chase, Executive Chairwoman of New Urban Mobility and founder of Zipcar, talks about the future of bikes with Bike Talk co-host Andrea Learned in June, 2021.
May 30, 2022•45 min
Scott Epstein is an active transportation progressive running for the powerful position of Council District 5 representative in Los Angeles. In this interview with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols, Scott lays out his priorities: ending homelessness, addressing the Los Angeles housing/affordability crisis, and taking local action on climate change. Epstein is able to connect all these with active transportation. George Kohout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails in Western Massachusetts, pr...
May 30, 2022•45 min
A ribbon cutting for the new segment connecting Pittsfield to Adams along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail in Western Massachusetts. https://www.iberkshires.com/story/68152/State-Local-Officials-Cut-Ribbon-for-Pittsfield-Rail-Trail-Extension.html 47:00 Butch Flowers, a farmer and handyman in the hill towns of Massachusetts, on his plan to ride from Portland to Massachusetts this summer.
May 15, 2022•57 min
Bikeways, active transportation, climate change, and safe streets with Laura Friedman, California state Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, in conversation with Dave Snyder, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Melanie Curry, Editor of Streetsblog California. https://a43.asmdc.org/ New York City's Jackson Heights created “Paseo Park,” a 1.3-mile stretch where “vehicles are guests” on five-mile-per-hour shared streets. Jim burke, co-Founder of...
May 08, 2022•53 min
Kicking off Bike Month and new car-free days on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. With Galen Mook, Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition baystatebikemonth.org Massbike.org 2:15 They know in the Netherlands that making streets safe means controlling cars. Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy Communications Manager and author of Building the Cycling City and Curbing Traffic, tells Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman what they know in the Netherlands. Part T...
May 03, 2022•55 min
Elena Huisman, a voice for bicycle infrastructure with “Main Street for everyone” and “Safe Streets Northampton,” talks about bike events, benefits, politics, infrastructure, and biking safely in Northampton, Massachusetts. https://mainst4everyone.org/ 8:45 Galen Mook and Ken McLeod discuss Massachusetts’ new #1 Bicycle Friendly State ranking with the League of American Bicyclists. Ken is the League’s Policy Director, and Galen is Bike Talk Cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicy...
May 03, 2022•53 min
Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cycling Federation, on her advocacy for biking and reducing oil dependency in Europe--with cohost Lindsay Sturman. https://ecf.com/ 18:48 Chris Bruntlett, co-author of "Building the Cycling City" and "Curbing Traffic" and Communications Manager for the Dutch Cycling Embassy, talks with Lindsay Sturman about how reducing car speed is essential to bikeability. https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/ 29:30 There's a competition to design artistic bike racks in Holyoke, Mass...
Apr 20, 2022•57 min
The Bike Summit and how the climate movements needs to wake up about (e)bikes with Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists and Galen Mook, cohost and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition: https://www.bikeleague.org/ 13:29 Emily stein, president of Safe Roads Alliance, on Global Road Safety Week Relay ride/walk/run across Massachusetts- https://www.saferoadsalliance.org/ 22:44 Wilcer/William Cervantes, founder of Crank Hustle, a food del...
Apr 19, 2022•55 min
Connecticut's SB4, a climate action bill, would give people vouchers to buy ebikes. Dr. Allie Thomas, an ebike researcher, supports it. https://planning.unc.edu/2021/10/e-biking-as-a-tool-for-parents-and-caretakers/ @ 24:25-Warren Wells on his tweet about having to differentiate between recreation and transportation for bike trips: https://twitter.com/WarrenJWells/status/1504514239301513234?s=20&t=xl-3MgzqsQ0pozuLl87d_g @ 36:18-The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition E.D. Eli Akira Kaufman ...
Apr 05, 2022•55 min
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is hosting a Bike Salon to support making LA more bikeable. Attendees can sign the Healthy Streets LA Petition to implement LA's mobility plan whenever streets are paved. Taylor Nichols talks with LACBC E.D. Eli Akira Kaufman and Senior Development Manager Genevieve Cerda, Santa Monica Spoke President and Co-Founder Cynthia Rose, and Pure Luck Cycles/Maverick entrepreneur Michael Fishman. Edited by Kevin Burton. https://www.healthystreetsla.com/ https://l...
Mar 29, 2022•17 min
California Assembly Bill 371 "would put most, if not all, shared micromobility systems out of business." California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Dave Snyder talks about this threat and Calbike's budget request for $500 million to implement connected, protected bicycle networks with cohost Taylor Nichols. https://www.calbike.org/calbike-opposes-ab-371/ "2 Wheeled Wolf" blogger Wolf Simpson talks to cohost Sarah Dylan Bruer about inclusive cycling and ebikes. https://the2wheeledwolf.blogsp...
Mar 21, 2022•57 min
Northampton, Massachusetts residents are organizing in the wake of Charlie Braun's car killing. George Kahout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails, and Elena Huisman, with Main Street For Everyone, talk to Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition. https://mainst4everyone.org/ http://fntrails.org/ https://www.massbike.org/ https://www.gazettenet.com/Driver-who-struck-killed-Northampton-musician-charged-43390653 Then, @ 27:00, Laura Keenan, whose husband, Matt, was...
Mar 18, 2022•58 min
The Netherlands: The Estonian ambassador rides a bike as his official diplomatic vehicle. Lauri Kuusing talks about that and the impact of the Ukraine situation with Lindsay Sturman. https://twitter.com/LKuusing/status/1494332848790069261?s=20&t=dwBx54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ @12:34: California: Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, talks to Taylor Nichols about the Healthy Streets LA initiative, which “provided a vision of what the city could be like if we prov...
Mar 06, 2022•51 min
Los Angeles Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman and her Field Deputy Mehmet Berker on how they're doing more for bikes than the rest of LA City Council (according to Streets For All). Read: https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/01/24/councilmember-raman-making-good-on-pledge-to-expand-bike-infrastructure/ -with Lindsay Sturman, cohost. @ 19:55: @EmFriedenberg, @esoxeneco, and @JCRiecke on their viral tweets: https://twitter.com/EmFriedenberg/status/1488287479702736896?s=20&t=Jaf90UQ-IPK4...
Feb 28, 2022•53 min
The Estonian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Lauri Kuusing, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Ukraine and biking as a diplomat. https://twitter.com/LKuusing/status/1494332848790069261?s=20&t=dwBx54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ
Feb 28, 2022•17 min
Streets For All's Founder Michael Schneider with cohost Taylor Nichols on why Los Angeles needs another safe streets nonprofit, and their campaign to force the city to implement its own mobility plan every time a street is repaved. https://www.healthystreetsla.com/ https://streetsforall.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton. @ 19:45- Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield talks with Eben Weiss, aka BikeSnobNYC, the influential bike culture blogger, Outside Magazine columnist, and book author, about wh...
Feb 21, 2022•58 min
A University of Illinois at Chicago report found racial and ethnic disparities in who speed/red light cameras catch breaking traffic laws. What can be done about it? Chicago Streetsblog co-editor John Greenfield interviews UIC professors Dr. Stacey Sutton and Dr. Nebiyou Tilahoun, authors of the report, for Bike Talk. John's article on their report and the ProPublica study: https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/01/14/what-should-we-do-about-the-racial-disparities-in-chicagos-life-saving-traffic-camer...
Feb 12, 2022•58 min
Michael Schneider, founder Streets for All, goes over the highs and lows of 2021 for safe streets in Los Angeles with Don Ward and Lindsay Sturman. https://streetsforall.org/ Then-New Year's resolutions from a #bikeTwitter perspective with Nick (AKA John Forester's Worst Nightmare). https://twitter.com/C_rless Edited by Kevin Burton
Jan 30, 2022•59 min
Deliveristas Unidos organizes New York City bike delivery workers for a livable wage and the right to organize, in addition to some other basic protections. An organizer named Josh talks to Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director. Edited by Kevin Burton. Then-Megan Ramey of Hood River, Oregon talks about starting a bike train for parents dropping their kids off at school, Bike Twitter, and her bike tourism site, Bikabout.com.
Jan 30, 2022•57 min
