Intro: Bike LA's "Bike Fest" with Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA. Not Good Enough: a deadly bike lane design in SF, with Sustainable Transportation activists Luke Bornheimer and Stacey Randecker. 8:03 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXtts It works if you work it: a center running bike lane that works in the East Bay, with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz. 22:06 https://on.soundcloud.com/vpAZP She is the champion: multimodal, sustainable transportation advocate & Mayor ...
Oct 07, 2023•57 min
Intro Lindsay, Taylor and Nick on the upcoming show and Taylor's triumphant return from bike-friendly Spain. Carrying Water: Eric Berger’s article on the American Sepp Kuss' victory in the Vuelta a España. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/09/a-water-carrier-just-won-the-hardest-cycling-race-on-the-planet/ 10:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/4T4bd The Best Get Better: The end of Parking Mandates in New York City with Open Plans NYC Co-Executive Director Sara Lind. 26:40 https://on.soundcloud.com/...
Sep 30, 2023•58 min
Pilgrimage: Taylor Nichols' walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Park It: Landscape Studies professor Reid Bertone Johnson created a playground for a day in a parking space for international parking day. 5:13 https://on.soundcloud.com/QKt7s Exercised: An interview with Andrew Leonard, the author of The NY Times Article "How I Turned My Errands Into Exercise." 15:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/MdgQi Oregon Advocate: Jenna Berman, an Active Transportation Liaison for the Oregon Department of Tra...
Sep 23, 2023•55 min
Cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick read listener email. 6:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/5aGsc Into The Blue: A company redesigns cities for biking as part of making them like "Blue Zones," the places where people live longest. With Dan Burden, Director of Inspiration and Innovation, Blue Zones LLC. 26:34 https://on.soundcloud.com/T4Qqm Kindermoord, American Style: A ribbon cutting at an unprotected bike lane on a busy street prompts LA Streetsblogger Liz Schiller to ask, "Why do we love our cars mo...
Sep 16, 2023•55 min
Fix it: Brake maintenance advice from fixie rider, activist, and Los Angeles Metro Bikeshare mechanic Anne Marie Drolet. 5:25 https://on.soundcloud.com/8sfcb Redesigner: Jeff Speck, author of "Suburban Nation" and "Walkable Cities," on making cities walkable and bikeable. With Taylor Nichols. 36:16 https://on.soundcloud.com/meh79 Regulate: Getting the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to mandate Bicyclist Emergency Braking in deadly autonomous vehicles. With Ken McLeod, Polic...
Sep 09, 2023•54 min
4:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/Np452 Healthy Pastime: The personal and planetary health benefits of biking with scientist and Resources Chair for League of Women Voters in Los Angeles Dr. Grace Peng and Isabella Chu, Associate Director of the Data Core at Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences. By Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 28:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/UuLMM Business Bikelash: attachment to parking undermines livability and endangers the safe, healthy road design planned fo...
Sep 03, 2023•51 min
3:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/wZMqa Here, Then, and When: How car companies sold us car-centric roads, and how autonomous cars and EVs will not solve that problem. With Peter Norton, author of "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City," and "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." By Lindsay Sturman. 32:57 https://on.soundcloud.com/BkV3v Show Me the Way: On bike tourism and the Western New England Greenway, with Dan McGuinness and Tom O' Brien. By Lily Ho...
Aug 23, 2023•58 min
7:22 https://on.soundcloud.com/Eix9J Here for the Ratio: Anne Marie Drolet, a bikeshare mechanic in Los Angeles, breaks down gear ratios with Nick. 18:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/2C5iE Good Work: Kristen Sykes, a Holyoke, Massachusetts Bike Ped Committee and MassBike Board member, on what's being done to make Holyoke friendlier to bikes. With Holyoke student Lily Hoffman Strickler. 28:45 https://on.soundcloud.com/8zxgn Picture if You Will: The Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts has big ideas f...
Aug 18, 2023•55 min
Magnus White's not-accidental car killing, No More Ghost Rides and Trash Panda Cycling's LA bike calendar with Raphael Hernandez and cohosts. https://linktr.ee/trashpandacycling 13:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/Umnsp Fight Back: Talking Back To Bikelash with CalBike's Kevin Claxton. https://www.calbike.org/talking-back-to-bikelash/ 35:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/Srv9m RAGBRAI: The Great Iowa Fall Ride with "Shift" documentarians/Des Moines Register journalists Courtney Crowder and Kelsey Kremer,...
Aug 10, 2023•58 min
Chutzpah: the supermajority on Vancouver's City Council, ABC ("A Better City"), ripped out iconic Stanley Park's protected bike lane to make room for drivers to enjoy nature through windshields. Lucy Maloney, Vancouver safe streets activist, says that ABC has its sights on other bike lanes. But there's always hope. Then, cohosts Seamus, Taylor, and Nick discuss whether political ideology correlates to attitudes towards active transportation. 17:28 https://on.soundcloud.com/V9DvY Front Lines: Law...
Aug 05, 2023•58 min
0:00 Trash Talk: A recent listener email objected to Bike Talk's interview with Bike Mapper Jaimy Fisher because she didn't use Strava data that included MAMILs (Middle Aged Men in Lycra). Original interview at: on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y. This, according to our listener, constituted "Trash Talking MAMILS." Cohosts Taylor, Lindsay, Madeleine, Seamus & Nick do some introspecting, and find that we do indeed love MAMILs. 12:08 https://on.soundcloud.com/5JULK Class Trip: MAMIL Taylor Nichols takes ...
Jul 26, 2023•58 min
0:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/zpXmy Lucas Rowton, mountain bike racer and bike mechanic, gives some advice on chains and flats. 10:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/ixYFS LA Times Art and Design Columnist Carolina Miranda on her article, "Build less housing for cars and more for people," with Taylor Nichols. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-07-07/build-less-housing-for-cars-and-more-for-people-how-cities-of-the-past-can-guide-the-future 26:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/bts1...
Jul 21, 2023•42 min
A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Ecovillage. Lois Arkin produced the event, and was presented with the Bike Talk Lifetime Bike Advocacy Supporting Role award for cofounding the LA Ecovillage. Ecovillagers had roles in starting the Bike Kitchen, LA County Bike Coalition (now BikeLA), and CicLAvia. The Panel consisted of Executive Director of LA Walks and candidate for California Assembly, John Yi; the ED of BikeLA, E...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min
14:07 https://on.soundcloud.com/AfXTA Bike Night: A bike rodeo and other bike events sharpened the skills and whet the appetites of children at North Adams, Massachusetts' "Pedal 2 The Metal" event, with Jessi Byrne, Health & Wellness Coordinator of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and Nick Russo, Senior Planner of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. 20:39 https://on.soundcloud.com/XEC1y Bike Data: Strava's bike data through an equity lens as interpreted by Canadian resear...
Jul 13, 2023•58 min
:23 https://on.soundcloud.com/EXosA Chicago's Bike Grid Now uses 4 mph "Slow Jam" rides to demand slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. Chicago Bike Grid Now member Rony Islam speaks with cohosts Nick, Taylor, and Seamus. 12:37 https://on.soundcloud.com/QQxTC Bike philosophy, the differences between biking in NYC and LA, and bike advocacy in 3 short interviews by Seamus Garrity with Allez LA co-owners Kyle B. Kelley and Shawn Wolf, and patron/Los Feliz Neighborhood Councilmemb...
Jul 07, 2023•58 min
Transcript: bit.ly/3OmdSnE 0:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/xwxnT Money Talks: Truck sideguards are proven to save lives; the League of American Bicyclists' Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker tells cohost Taylor Nichols how the USDOT chose the trucking industry over lives. 10:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/Le7gy Advocacy Roots: A recent Bike Talk forum covered the past, present, and future of Bike Advocacy in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Ecovillage. Ecovillagers began the Bike Kitchen, LA Co...
Jul 01, 2023•58 min
0:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/MuEKS Easy Does: Father's Day was the New Orleans Big Easy Bike Festival. Details from Bayou Queens and Bayou Cruisers Bike Club President Hardy Elzy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1765096107047285/ 7:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/3NNrL Decongest: congestion pricing nears approval in NYC; how and why with energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental activist Charles Komanoff. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinion/traffic-new-york-congestion.ht...
Jun 22, 2023•58 min
1:21 https://on.soundcloud.com/eVUsi Alternative Vision: an update on campaigns of NYC safe streets advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives including Sammy's Law and 25x25, with Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge. 12:53 https://on.soundcloud.com/FjXdn Hunger for Justice: A hunger strike to get the NY State Assembly to pass Sammy's Law for locally set speed limits by Families for Safe Streets co-founder and Sammy's mother, Amy Cohen. 19:15 https://on.soundcloud.com/LozsA ...
Jun 15, 2023•58 min
1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/RfwA2 Connected: A car-free path providing critical connections between the Riverfront and Detroit destinations recently opened in Detroit. Marc Pasco, Director of communications for the Detroit Riverfront and Conservancy, tells Taylor, Lindsay, and Nick about the recently opened Southwest Greenway. https://detroitgreenways.org/projects/southwest-greenway/ 5:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/KJHcw LA Rider: Life on a bike in Los Angeles by Tom Morash, "Entitled Cyclist....
Jun 08, 2023•58 min
:58 https://on.soundcloud.com/76wUv The Price of Parking: Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar explains how parking ruins cities. With Taylor Nichols. 20:11 https://on.soundcloud.com/2KW2w London Calling: journalist and Spokesmen podcaster Carlton Reid on how London, like Paris, makes driving inconvenient, and why that's necessary to increase bike, pedestrian, and transit modeshare, for a more liveable city. With Lindsay Sturman and Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher. 40:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/e6nze So...
Jun 01, 2023•58 min
1:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/tqsbL His Turf: John Jones III, East Side Riders President, at CicLAvia Mini. 5:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/P7mpZ Critical Comeback: Vancouver's conservative city council uses dedicated bike funds to remove a protected bike lane. In response, Vancouver's Critical Mass has come back. With Lucy Maloney and Rob Zomber. 19:05 https://on.soundcloud.com/FVFKc What you don't know: Tire particles emit more pollution than modern tailpipes, a study finds, challenging assump...
May 25, 2023•58 min
Intro Bike Month happenings with Detroit Motown Trailblazers Founder Reo Ramsay, Los Angeles CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, and Berkshire Bike Path Council President Marjorie Cohan. With cohosts Seamus Garrity, Nick Richert, and Taylor Nichols. 18:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/xWmMo Life or Liberty: AB 645 would install speed cameras in California cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mobility advocates overwhelmingly support the bill, but the California ACLU opposes AB 645...
May 18, 2023•58 min
Intro Bike Month: What's happening May, Bike Month, in Santa Monica, Detroit, and Northampton, Massachusetts; cohosts Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert get a rundown with Cynthia Rose, Director of Santa Monica Spoke, Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, and Elena Huisman, Board Member of Friends of Northampton Trails. 15:19 https://on.soundcloud.com/YT5SK Greener Way: a 30 mile long "greenway" brings new life to Detroit communities. Joe Louis Greenwa...
May 09, 2023•58 min
5:13 on.soundcloud.com/mJcC1 Bike Wars: Seamus Garrity interviews Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider on Los Angeles's misleading claims about its progress towards Mobility Plan 2035, and the ballot measure that would force the city to implement its plan. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/13/astonishing-city-planning-department-mobility-plan-status-report-ignores-mobility-plan/ 22:26 https://on.soundcloud.com/Kj2sx Driver Lobby: Toronto Star Journalist...
May 02, 2023•58 min
2:33 https://on.soundcloud.com/gjUub Violence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city's pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team. 21:59 https://on.soundcloud.com/nW5By Lives Above All Else: Columbus, Ohio is on board for safer streets. Taylor Nichols interviews Maria Cantrell, Vision Zero Coordinator ...
Apr 24, 2023•58 min
1:00 https://on.soundcloud.com/aUw3u This is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass Central Rail Trail, here gives Bike Talk a preview of the Norwottuck Network report about what a completed MCRT will mean to the Commonwe...
Apr 18, 2023•58 min
2:24 https://on.soundcloud.com/ocg3p Wild and Free: A girl tames a big-kid bike in "Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike," by bestselling children's book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story. 19:44 https://on.soundcloud.com/7e3vN No Time For Losers: Pittsfield's City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on the November ballot. With Ricardo Morales, Pittsfield, Massachusetts' Commissioner of Public Utilities. 38:15...
Apr 11, 2023•58 min
1:19.70 https://on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3 Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an "adjacent" Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride's sponsors. 16:01 https://on.soundcloud.com/VdXYe Check it: at an Alleycat checkpoint in Washington, DC, the "Love" mural in Blagden Alley, volun...
Apr 04, 2023•58 min
1:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/FLPQ1 Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity to talk about their new coalition, Our Streets Action Committee. bit.ly/3Ko1sJT 40:40 ht...
Apr 01, 2023•58 min
The unedited conversation between Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley, Lucy Maloney of https://lovethelane.ca/, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales, and https://www.slowstreets.us/ founder Luke Bornheimer from this episode: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-please
Mar 22, 2023•52 min
