2:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/LMwkX Bike Lit: UK Professor Dr. Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black experience in cycling and his book, "Desire, Descrimination, Determination: Black Champions in Cycling," with Nick Richert 30:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/6oZSt Riding in Their Footsteps: David Goodrich on his book, "On Freedom Road," about his bike tour along the route of the Underground Railroad, his blog, https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/, and his climate science, with Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition...
Mar 21, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3Zc52em 1:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/92anJ Gold Standard: Queens' 34th Avenue open street is the open street other open streets emulate. Jim Burke, a 34th Ave Volunteer Leader, talks to Nick Richert. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/oiwXe SF Intersection: Open streets and housing in San Francisco with Robin Pam, Parent Organizer and Founder at Kid Safe SF, and Annie Fryman, Director of Special Projects with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, b...
Mar 16, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3n6xEIF 1:02 https://on.soundcloud.com/kzP8k Advocates' roundabout: A forum of people fighting for protected bike lanes, with Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley for Hopkins, Lucy Maloney in Vancouver for Stanley Drive, and Ricardo Morales in Pittsfield for North Street. Also, Luke Bornheimer, San Francisco Advocate, for the website https://www.slowstreets.us/. Unedited interview here: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-round-table-full?si=2973f883a3f6413ab...
Mar 07, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/40mUafj Intro: Seamus and Don at the San Fernando Valley CicLAvia 0:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXEK4 Counsel: Los Angeles' City Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman at CicLAvia on biking, the need to get people out of cars, and what can get the LA City Council to implement the City's mobility plan. With Seamus Garrity. 13:14 https://on.soundcloud.com/CFyTx Beautiful day: Metrics of success at CicLAvia in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, with Tafarai Bayne, CicLAvia...
Mar 01, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3JWrQKS Intro: Nick, Seamus, and Taylor introduce San Franciscan Luke Bornheimer, who recently started the slow streets resources website at https://www.slowstreets.us/. Also, Seamus' celebrity encounter with America's Bike Mayor, John Bauters. 2:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/gKuom Active TO: The longest street in the world, Yonge Street in Toronto, Canada, has a world class complete street portion that was made permanent on February 8. Yonge 4 All spokesperson Robin Richardson...
Feb 21, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3yWgK1V Intro: Seamus, Lindsay, Nick and Taylor 1:06 https://on.soundcloud.com/uUTZK Burbank Does Bike: Councilmember Nikki Perez, who ran a progressive urbanist campaign and received more votes than any CM in Burbank's history, on engaging communities in active transportation - with Seamus Garrity. 13:59 https://on.soundcloud.com/7qVmZ Taking the Lane: The anti-bike lane drivists of Pittsfield, Massachusetts want to rip the protected bike lane pilot out of the heart of their ...
Feb 14, 2023•59 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3Z6S3L1 Intro: Taylor Nichols, Seamus Garrity, and Nick Richert 0:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/kKbcR Safe? No. Why? Cars: Dr. Anne Lusk talks to Seamus Garrity about her article, "Is cycling safe? In many cases, the answer is no," in the Harvard Gazette. 22:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/oJc9R Bikes4Ukraine: Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of Copenhagenize, talks from Kyiv with Seamus about his project to get used bikes from Western Europe to the front lines in Ukraine. 40:11 ...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3LIdy1z Intro: Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols share their audio and thoughts from the January 21 Die-in to protest traffic deaths at Los Angeles City Hall. With Seamus Garrity. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/01/23/safe-streets-advocates-stage-die-in-at-l-a-city-hall-to-protest-record-traffic-deaths/ 12:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/Wh3yu Getting Through: Damian Kevitt, founder of Streets Are For Everyone, on why traffic violence incidents are not accidents, and the story o...
Jan 31, 2023•54 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/s1rRtJ2j5QFloFadq6MQutN0Ao8 Intro Taylor Nichols, Seamus Garrity, Jenni Chang, and Nick Richert talk about the day's die-in and preview this episode. 4:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/1ickS Standout Service: Reflections on a superlative record of active transportation and safe streets legislation with Laura Friedman, California's 43rd District Assembly member and Transportation Committee Chair, by Seamus Garrity. 22:12 https://on.soundcloud.com/ZV88M Encouraging E-bik...
Jan 25, 2023•53 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/KNv0EDw-V9PiOYI848uY9zraF4o Intro Seamus, Nick and Taylor preview today's stories. 1:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/xmoyU Who's Dying: Streets Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) found that Los Angeles traffic violence killed 309 people in 2022, an increase of five percent from the previous year and 28 percent over 2020. They're holding a Die-In at City Hall next Saturday. Lindsay Sturman interviews Damian Kevitt, S.A.F.E. founder. RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/streetsarefor...
Jan 17, 2023•52 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/JvAoa41NsnVMU5LJdXydAyd07uM Intro Seamus, Galen, Taylor, and Nick preview today's stories. 2:48 https://on.soundcloud.com/Cgttm Bike Priority: San Francisco's California State Senator Scott Wiener on why we need but don't have complete networks of bike lanes, and the unfortunate car-centricity of society. With Seamus Garrity and Stacey Randecker. 19:19 https://on.soundcloud.com/ENWXD Bike Share Unite: The Unionization of Los Angeles Metro Bike Share workers and the...
Jan 09, 2023•55 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/hOrsm6H1fzhBLr0YgxF7c-AbD9A Intro 1:47 https://on.soundcloud.com/P7GpD Good, Bad, and Ugly: Streetsblog Los Angeles Editor Joe Linton wraps up Los Angeles transportation for 2022. 28:14 https://on.soundcloud.com/yKQ4g Duty Calls: Bike Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, Vivian Ortiz explains her role to Massachusetts Bike Coalition Executive Director Galen Mook. 38:38 https://on.soundcloud.com/ksBG1 Bikes on the Way: Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for Haiti in Northampt...
Jan 05, 2023•54 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Rwian2DHK9tPikP4Ng6_p1U5hB0 Intro Taylor Nichols and Nick Richert 1:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/mVj9p Mixed Holidays: Christmas Wishes, recorded by Lynn Ingram at the Mixed Race ride. 3:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/JGZ2g Fresh Start: Hugo Soto-Martinez talks with Bike Talk host Seamus Garrity about becoming the new Los Angeles Council District 13 representative, and his recent motion for better streets. 18:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/rgyVF All Access: All Bodies ...
Dec 28, 2022•54 min
Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/zOU_a6vI0-1CFoPh7zTKNfxZOl8 START Intro 2:17 https://on.soundcloud.com/uJzbW Slow Down: In a victory for people who use their own power to move, San Francisco organizers got slow streets made permanent. Taylor Nichols interviews Robin Pam of KidSafeSF, Jess Jenkins and Molly Hayden of Page Slow Street, and Sara Barz of Slow Hearst. 19:49 https://on.soundcloud.com/PciLH It's Healthy: Public Health researcher Isabella Chu discusses the rise in pedestrian and cyclist ...
Dec 20, 2022•55 min
START Intro with Taylor Nichols, LA City District 5 Bicycle Advisory Committee Representative. 3:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/zBSL1 Bike Strike: Alejandra Rios and Nick Stewart-Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles academic workers, on the use of the bicycle as an organizing tool in their ongoing labor strike. 12:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/Q3G3E Bike Club Grads: Edwin and Ryan, members of the recently founded Reid Middle school bike club, on its first semester. 18:58 https://on.soundc...
Dec 14, 2022•58 min
START Intro: Lindsay Sturman, Taylor Nichols, and Nick Richert 3:25 on.soundcloud.com/vxvXG Roads Kill: Emily Badger on her viral NY Times Article, "The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths," and how American Foreign Service agents are more likely to be killed by cars at home than overseas. Taylor Nichols interviews. 32:52 on.soundcloud.com/RcB8E Catch-22: Miriam Pinsky on her article in the SF Chronicle, "Why does California revoke licenses as punishment for things that have ...
Dec 06, 2022•58 min
START Global Connections: At Bike Lab, a DIY workshop in Northampton, Massachusetts, Ruthy Woodring collects bikes for projects in Trinidad and Haiti. 8:47 https://on.soundcloud.com/HppWE BFF: The Bicycle Film Festival's Founding Director, Brendt Barbur, interviewed by Taylor Nichols. 27:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/27tvN Windshield Bias: NYC bicyclist lawyer Adam White tells how he was thrown in jail for removing a piece of plastic which obscured a license plate number. The driver wasn't ticket...
Nov 29, 2022•56 min
START School Bus: a bike bus run by P.E. teacher Sam Balto in Portland, OR has been emulated and celebrated in social media. Interviews with Bus volunteers and Portland Bike Loud members Cathy Tuttle and Paul Buchanan. 10:51 https://on.soundcloud.com/f3CCj The Oven Is Open: after years of hanging on by a thread, the Bicycle Oven collective of Northeast Los Angeles is back. Joe Borfo shares his thoughts. 18:08 https://on.soundcloud.com/Xr26X Cyclocrossed: This year's Verge Northampton Internation...
Nov 21, 2022•55 min
START Happy Trails: friends of non-Internal Combustion Engine transportation converged at the MassTrails conference last Saturday. MassBike E.D. Galen Mook interviews Namrit Kapur of HubLove. https://www.masstrailsconference.com/ 6:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/d8UzS Almost here: Eli Kaufman on Sunset 4 All’s years-long effort of making 3.2 miles of iconic Sunset blvd a 2-way protected bike lane, transforming the “high injury network” street into a transit and pedestrian friendly one…also, LACBC’...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min
START Our Champions: an Assemblymember from urban Los Angeles and a Representative of a primarily small-town Massachusetts district are fighting for safe streets and biking in similar ways. California's 43rd Assemblymember and Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman wrote the revolutionary legislation that ended parking minimums near transit in the state of Califlornia. If that weren't enough, her "Omnibike" law addresses a number of California bicycle laws to improve safety and save lives...
Nov 08, 2022•57 min
START Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition E.D. Galen Mook on safe streets-related ballot questions 1 (the "Fair Share Amendment") and 4 (driver licenses for undocumented immigrants) in the Massachusetts election. 2:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/3DJwQ Road Kill: Prop "J" would keep The Great Walkway and JFK Drive in San Francisco car free for community; Prop "I" would steal smiles from children. Zach Lipton, Yes on Prop J organizer, talks with Stacey Randecker. https://twitter.com/zachlipton 19:37 htt...
Nov 01, 2022•54 min
START Stay Car Free: San Francisco will vote on whether to keep JFK Drive car free November 8th. Stacey Randecker interviews Prop J organizer Zachary Lipton. https://sf.streetsblog.org/2022/08/30/save-the-j-f-k-promenade-vote-yes-on-measures-j-and-n-and-no-on-i/ 2:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/Ca8SL In Closing: Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin has been a friend to Los Angeles bikes and pedestrians. Bonin fought two recall efforts, one of which was over traffic calming he implemented in his di...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr
START No Free Parking: California reverses its policy on parking minimums, and parking reformer Tony Jordan is celebrating with Lindsay Sturman. parkingreform.org/los-angeles-party/ 11:25 on.soundcloud.com/Be13k Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail: California Senator Anthony Portantino's newly signed "Plan For The Future" law requires cities and counties to include bicycle and pedestrian plans, multimodal networks, and traffic calming for any urbanized area. Senator Portantino talks about how his views -...
Oct 18, 2022•53 min
START Lay it Out: Rony Islam and Daniel Streicher on Bike Grid Now's tactics (Bike Jams, Bike Buses, Jamapalooza) and goal (10% of Chicago streets capped at 10mph). https://bikegridnow.org 20:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/mTkKm Rip It Out: Michael Podgers, Jeremy Frisch, and Kyle Lucas of Better Streets Chicago on the plan for Lakeshore Drive, a highway on Lake Michigan. With Stacey Randecker of San Francisco. https://www.betterstreetschicago.org/ 41:11 https://on.soundcloud.com/DEoVp Work it Out...
Oct 10, 2022•52 min
START Activated: John Simmerman on producing his urbanism and healthy streets podcast, "Active Towns." www.activetowns.org/articles/ 14:30 Uh-Oh, Omaha: Sarah Johnson on Carfree Midwest, her "Omaha based podcast exploring the stories, barriers and joys of getting around the midwest without a car." One barrier is the anti-bike Omaha Mayor ripping out the city's only protected bike lane despite the lane's unanimous support in city council. anchor.fm/carfreemidwest 26:15 Bike Civilized: Leo Spinett...
Oct 02, 2022•57 min
START Parallel Universe - MassBike E.D. and Cohost Galen Mook, a.k.a. Mookmaster Bikes, on the parallels in legislation between California and Massachusetts, plus the impact of "parking guru" Donald Shoup. Then- 7:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/f4WyF Shoup's On: Laura Friedman's AB 2097 (now law) will "prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project...that is located within 12 miles of public transit." T...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min
START: There's an avalanche of new bike legislation on California Governor Newsom's desk. California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry gives a reportback based on her article: https://cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/02/legislative-wrap-up-bills-on-bike-and-ped-safety-climate/ 26:08 In Business -Mark Sanderson owned and staffed the East Lansing bicycle shop, Velocipede Peddler, for 45 years. Now he's employed as a mechanic in the same space by the new owners, D&D Bicycles & Hockey. Taylor Nich...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min
START: Adaptive Cycling: Western Massachusetts adaptive cyclists Naomi Clark and Giovanni Lynch talk with Berkshire Bike Path President Marjorie Cohan. 17:35 Bike Picture: Jerome Horne, Transit Center's Director of Transit Leadership Development, on bikes in society, with Nick Richert. 33:30 Bike Innovator: Craig Calfee, a bike builder who pioneered carbon fiber and bamboo in bike making, talks with Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols about his life in bikes and his work in Africa. TRANSCRIPT: https...
Sep 12, 2022•57 min
START: No Bikes Allowed: John Elliot, a musician who tours by bike, was denied entrance to Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California, because he didn't arrive by car. We got Andrew Brooks, President of the Skyline Park Citizens Association, and Kara Vernor, Executive Director of the Napa County Bicycle Coalition, to discuss what all parties acknowledge is a big mistake. 28:45 Adventures: Adventure Cycling's Bike Overnights program's Events Coordinator Carmen Aiken, with Bike Talk cohost...
Sep 06, 2022•52 min
START: No Healthy Streets for Los Angeles: The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously not to require itself to implement its own mobility plan whenever a street is repaved. Healthy Streets LA will be on the Los Angeles ballot anyway, in 2024. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, which created HSLA, gives feedback. https://michaelschneider.medium.com/10-mobility-plan-corridors-la-should-do-now-cfb7e4a065a9 7:02 Critical Mass for Mayor: Chicago's 8/26 Critical Mass was truly massive,...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min
