Roberto's Boston Rideout. 3:10 What anti cyclist harassment ordinances can do for you, according to bike lawyer Jim Pocrass. 9:54 Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider addresses a radio rant about his win for Healthy Streets in Los Angeles. 20:03 How to turn a bike ride into a workout, by Amanda Loudin 33:55 Bike Month in the Bay Area and a call to save the bike path on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge with Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Prinz. 47:50 Stacey's Bike Thought 53:58
May 03, 2024•58 min
A wheelbuilding chat. An interview from the California Bike Summit with Kendra Ramsey, California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director. 1:59 Vehicular Cyclist and League Certified Instructor Jim Baross on learning to ride like a vehicle when safe infrastructure doesn't exist. 7:03 Emma Mellonee of the Active Transportation Research Center on what they’re doing for bikes in California. 13:37 Laura’s Colnago. 15:15 A discussion of the harrassment of cyclists by drivers and "motonormativity" resear...
Apr 26, 2024•57 min
Reimagining streets on Willoughby in West Hollywood California and W. 72nd on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with PhD Transportation Researcher Miriam Pinski and Carl Mahaney, Director of StreetopiaUWS. 0:52 Listener Email: Dan Murphy on hi-viz clothing: a low cost safety measure, or victim blaming? 14:57 The Great American Rail Trail, the nation’s first cross-country multiuse trail, will stretch more than 3,700 miles between Washington, D.C., and Washington State. Powell County, Montana Plan...
Apr 19, 2024•58 min
Legal Moment: Can companies be held liable when employees crash while phone-multitasking? With attorney Jim Pocrass. 2:29 Skaters Who Bike in Phoenix are expanding to other cities and towns. With Tim Ward. 8:54 A comprehensive look at years of research shows that Bike Lanes Are Good for Business. Taylor talks with journalist Adam Rogers about his article, https://www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-good-for-business-studies-better-streets-2024-3#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBut%20once%20a%20street%20is,senio...
Apr 12, 2024•59 min
Listener email: an endorsement for Charles Marohn's "empathy for the driver," D.C. bike infrastructure, and an inquiry about our theme song, "Bike:" https://www.malwebb.com/bike.html 2:41 The entire state of California and the individual cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Los Angeles have proposed or passed measures which implement bike plans when repaving roads. With Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Printz. 7:19 California isn't the only leader in bike friendly legislation; heads of bike an...
Apr 04, 2024•57 min
Access to Hollywood program will add protected bike and bus lanes and cause “traffic evaporation” on LA’s Hollywood Boulevard. Taylor Nichols with LA City Council District 4 Field Deputy Mehmet Berker. 2:01 Personal injury lawyer Jim Pocrass explains the legal grounds for taking the lane. 8:35 Live To Ride: Finding Joy and Meaning on a Bicycle, the book. With author and journalist Peter Flax. https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781648291319 23:00 Northern Virginia Opens New “66-Parallel” Bike And Walk...
Mar 29, 2024•58 min
Listener Email: Jonathan Weiss on how much harder it is to get a driver's license in Europe than in the U.S., and what that means for everyone. 1:06 The Best Bike Light is reviewed by Reo Ramsey of Motown Trailblazers in Detroit. 2:52 Listener Email: Jonathan Levin on how shaming drivers causes intransigence. 6:20 Recovering Engineer and Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn on gaining local control over streets to make them safer for everybody, and, to that end, refraining from shaming drivers as...
Mar 22, 2024•58 min
Winter Riding in Utah 0:23 the Healthy Streets LA ballot measure was approved by voters last week. If it does what is intended, LA will finally be forced to implement its own mobility plan, bike lanes and all. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, reports on the success of his organization's measure. 2:31 Listener email from Børge A. Roum in Norway. 9:11 Charles Marohn, author of "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer" and founder of Strong Towns, reflects on why we shouldn’t ridicule pe...
Mar 15, 2024•57 min
Eddie Vargas, Grub Hub bike delivery worker, loads up groceries in Los Angeles. 1:51 Bike Traffic report with Don Ward. 4:57 A new study in the Journal for Transport and Land Use shows blaming individuals for traffic violence prevents systemic changes to US roadways. 5:50 "There Are No Accidents" author Jessie Singer on the evolution of the accident, and how the auto industry has convinced the public that car crashes are due to "jaywalkers," "nutty drivers," and human error- when they are built ...
Mar 08, 2024•58 min
Voices of CicLAvia. 1:54 The law of riding in inclement weather, with Jim Pocrass. 4:32 Heads of Active Transportation Organizations on their legislative Priorities: Kendra Ramsey, Executive Director of CalBike. 11:42 José Antonio Zayas Cabán, Executive Director of Our Streets Minneapolis. 21:30 Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition. 29:00 LA Times Letter Editor Paul Thornton on Biking in Los Angeles. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2024-02-24/opinion-newsl...
Mar 01, 2024•58 min
Guest host: Caro Vilain @mobilityforwhom Listener Email: Robert Prinz, Advocacy Director, Bike East Bay 0:54 Bike Lane myths 2:15 Healthy Streets Los Angeles, on the ballot March 5, could transform car-centric streets. Michael Schneider, founder of the measure, on why it's needed. 3:57 California Professional Firefighters Union President Brian Rice is mad about a lot of things, all embodied by Healthy Streets Los Angeles and symbolized by the bicycle. 14:28 Biking While Black documentary maker Y...
Feb 22, 2024•58 min
Chain maintenance with Anne Marie Drolet. 1:54 Bike Law, with Jim Pocrass. 3:51 New studies on increasing bike modeshare in the UK . 12:51 The Vulnerable Road User Safety Act of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with Michael Kelley, Policy Director, Bike Walk Kansas City. 18:25 Community forms on the way to school in a walkable and bikeable Minneapolis neighborhood, according to Laura Mitchell, Board President of Our Streets Minneapolis. 34:05 Bike Thought with Stacey Randecker. 53:02
Feb 16, 2024•58 min
Taylor reviews SF's controversial Valencia St. bike lane. 0:20 A Winnipeg rider, Patty Wiens, responds to Taylor's LA-centric comments about winter riding "on a trainer in the basement" back east. 1:29 News on Metro Bike Share in LA and best romantic riding. 4:21 Why Are American Drivers so Deadly? NY Times writer Matthew Shaer unpacks his article with Taylor. 6:05 How we move forward to create sustainable cities with networks of protected bike lanes, or bike grids. With Gil Peñalosa, founder of...
Feb 09, 2024•58 min
A listener, Reese, speaks for connected, protected bike lanes in Utah. 2:00 News: With pedestrian and cyclist deaths in Los Angeles at an 8-year high, the departing Los Angeles Police Chief blames their reckless biking and walking habits. In California, SB 961 calls for all new cars to have speed governors. A Die-in against traffic violence at LA City Hall. 7:12 When a 14 year old on his bike was hit by an uninsured motorist in Chicago, personal injury lawyer Jonel Metaj took the case all the wa...
Feb 02, 2024•56 min
Personal injury attorney Jim Pocrass on the laws regarding Cycling Under the Influence. 2:04 News: A Los Angeles Die-in, more studies on the benefits of biking, and mandated Intelligent Speed Assistance in all new European cars. 8:45 Jack Ketcham on Election Cycles- Tempe Bicycle Action Group's rides and forums for candidates for political office in Tempe, Arizona. 12:02 https://www.biketempe.org/ Listener email: what's best for bikeshare. 18:35 The story of Paris' bike transformation by Secrets...
Jan 25, 2024•59 min
Why American Drivers are so deadly, according to the NY Times. 5:20 How LA's Transportation Agency, LA Metro, wants to give its successful bikeshare program to the rideshare company Lyft. 11:19 StreetsblogLA editor Joe Linton and Alexa Sledge, Communications Director for Transportation Alternatives in NYC, talk about last year in bikes in NYC and LA. 16:45 Progressive traffic engineer Vignesh Swaminathan, known as "Mr. Barricade," explains proper road design. 40:48
Jan 19, 2024•58 min
Listener email with Travis of Milwaukee News: A proposed safe streets forum with the Mayor of Los Angeles, and the growing number of U.S. cities eliminating parking mandates. 2:43 Taylor talks with author Valerie Bolling on her books for children: Ride, Roll, Run and Together We Ride. 7:44 Available at- https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781419756290 https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781797212487 Author/rider Sara Dykman talks about her bike tour on the migration route of monarch butterflies and her book...
Jan 12, 2024•58 min
LADOT's Senior Traffic Engineer Tim Fremaux on LA's famous traffic and how he'd love to see a network of interconnected facilities on a grid that would let you make trips comfortably by bike (it's the LA Mobility Plan). With Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 1:52 StreetsblogSF Editor Roger Rudick in conversation with Stacey Randecker on his commentary about how San Francisco "Fakes" its Vision Zero. https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/12/22/commentary-san-francisco-spent-ten-years-trying-to-fake-i...
Jan 05, 2024•55 min
News: How the NYC Deliverista minimum wage may reduce bicyclist fatalities. 2:13 The irony of drivers waiting patiently at Christmas Light Displays, with Associate Director of Data Core at Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Bella Chu. 8:40 The irony of drivers waiting patiently at In-n-Out, with Peter Flax, journalist and former Editor in Chief of Bicycling Magazine. 19:59 The irony of the High Cost of Free Parking with its author, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department ...
Dec 29, 2023•56 min
Holiday Rides: The Los Angeles All City Toy Ride and the Arlington, Massachusetts Jingle Ride, with Joe Borfo and Lauren Hefferon. 6:10 Brooklyn's Berry Street is a template for low traffic streets, despite an often hostile Mayor's office. With Kevin Duggan, StreetsblogNYC journalist. 15:19 https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/11/21/eyes-on-the-street-berry-street-bike-boulevard-is-a-model-for-low-traffic-streets Cambridge Massachusetts' Cycling Safety Ordinance requires the construction of separate...
Dec 22, 2023•58 min
Colin Jost on his outrageous bike habit, with Seth Meyers. 6:11 Santa Monica Mayor Gleam Davis leaves office with a wish for Santa Monica to be the bike capital of the world. https://momentummag.com/santa-monica-wants-to-be-bike-capital-of-the-world-unveils-stunning-new-project/ 8:25 Sarah Risser's online poll showed most respondents don't feel Portland needs to apologize for installing bike lanes without community input. The lane was removed anyway. https://bikeportland.org/2023/12/12/portland-...
Dec 15, 2023•58 min
Fox News supports speeding. 3:50 The legality of riding on the sidewalk with Jim Pocrass, personal injury attorney. 6:01 A bike lane ripped out for unproven EV charging technology on a Michigan street, no community input required. With Detroit Greenways Coalition Todd Scott and Stacey Randecker. 11:25 Cycling fallacies debunked with Tim Lennon, Secretary for the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. https://cyclingfallacies.com/en/ 19:00 A repost of an interview with the author of "Two Wheels Good: ...
Dec 09, 2023•58 min
Los Angeles Bikeshare mechanic AnneMarie Drolet on biking in the winter and the Gender Expansive ride. 2:35 https://on.soundcloud.com/fzidN The author of the OC Register article, "Sorry, urbanists, but bicycles will never save the planet," Steven Greenhut, explains his perspective to Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Bike Talk cohost Taylor Nichols. https://www.ocregister.com/2023/11/10/sorry-urbanists-but-bicycles-will-never-save-the-planet/ 7:19 https://on.soundcloud.com/o42Av Minneapolis' ...
Dec 01, 2023•50 min
What to do in a bike crash, with LA Personal Injury Attorney Jim Pocrass. 5:18 https://on.soundcloud.com/GGpRF Livable Communities: bikes, transit, and housing. Liveable Communities Initiative founder Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols. 11:09 https://on.soundcloud.com/EBHBN "Hating Bike Lanes is not a Winning Strategy," writes Massachusetts Streetsblogger Christian MilNeil of fall elections in Massachusetts. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/11/13/the-polls-are-in-hating-bike-lanes-is-not-a-winn...
Nov 26, 2023•56 min
Shabazz Stuart, CEO of Oonee, on making bike storage ubiquitous and free. Also, how the ebike registration bill being pushed by members of the NYC Council will cause racial profiling and disincentivize biking. 2:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/1iZPY The Massachusetts Central Rail Trail was the focus of this year's Golden Spike Conference. Conference organizer Craig De La Penna recreates a breakout session on how to get leaders to recognize the worth of a 104 mile bike/pedestrian trail across Massac...
Nov 19, 2023•56 min
NY State Senate considers one bill to install governors in the cars of people who speed, and another to tax vehicles by weight. Amy Cohen of Families for Safe Streets, which sponsors the bills, weighs in with Lindsay Sturman. 3:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/ZtrP6 How to increase bike mode share, with Brett Atencio Thomas, Active Transportation Coordinator with the city of Costa Mesa, California. Also with Lindsay. 12:43 https://on.soundcloud.com/mWbGZ The Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History o...
Nov 11, 2023•54 min
Cohosts Taylor, Nick and Lindsay discuss a study that finds bicyclists are better people than drivers. https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103 Sounds from Arroyo Fest, in which the 110 Freeway was closed to cars for a day. 6:36 https://on.soundcloud.com/Fdy7j Ongoing negotiations with Vancouver's anti-bike lane City Council, and the false equivalency of distracted driving with distracted walking, with Lucy Maloney. 10:23 https://on.soundcloud.com/WJ4ux...
Nov 04, 2023•54 min
Malibu's deadly main road, Pacific Coast Highway ("PCH"), needs an overhaul. Damian Kevitt, Founder of Streets Are For Everyone, makes the case. 1:27 https://on.soundcloud.com/41h2d California's new speed camera legislation explained by David Sforza, Principal Consultant of the California State Assembly Transportation Committee. 5:39 https://on.soundcloud.com/XVc5G US pedestrian deaths are soaring. Is it time to ban right turns on red lights? US Guardian writer Matthew Cantor, with Taylor Nichol...
Oct 26, 2023•55 min
On Bike Advocacy with Detroit Greenways Coalition Executive Director Todd Scott, Santa Monica Spoke Director Cynthia Rose, and cohosts Nick, Lindsay, Taylor, and Seamus. Michael Schneider on Healthy Streets Los Angeles, converting a freeway to a park, and how Streets For All advocates for bike friendly politicians. 15:10 https://on.soundcloud.com/NeMZe On the study showing women have lower rates of cancer in walkable (bikeable) neighborhoods with Guardian US writer Aliya Uteuova and Taylor Nicho...
Oct 22, 2023•56 min
Fight the Power: NYC's Transportation Alternatives tries to build safe streets infrastructure despite a hostile Mayoral administration. With Alexa Sledge. Staying the Course: SF bike activists Robin Pam, Amandeep Jawa, and Sara Barz still support a center-running bike lane on Valencia Street in San Francisco. 7:09 https://on.soundcloud.com/fTdsf Not So Fast: Stacey Randecker and Luke Bornheimer reprise their perspective on Valencia Street's center-running bike lane. 24:02 https://on.soundcloud.c...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min
