Bike Talk

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://lacbc.salsalabs.org/2022BikeSalonMaverickCommunity/index.html

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.blogspot.com/ Tab Combs and Kate Rosen discuss their viral bike tweets. https://twitter.com/KRDemCT https://twitter.com/DrTCombs Edited by Kevin Burton.

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 killed by a distracted driver in September, has been advocating for immediate improvements to bike infrastructure using "quick builds." Laura has some thoughts about the protected bike lane debates she's been seeing. Laura talks with "Grandma" Beverly Shelton of Southern California Families for Safe Streets, whose course as a safe streets advocate was set when her grandson, Zachary, was killed by a negligent driver in 2009. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/story/2022-01-03/san-diego-cyclists-safety htt

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 provided people-centered infrastructure,” their "Sunset For All" campaign, and developing a "street advocacy playbook and training academy." https://www.la-bike.org/ @41:07: Massachusetts: Petru Sofio, a Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition intern, was a traffic and bike lane prodigy, drawing maps of his neighborhood streetlights as a child. Executive Director of MassBike Galen Mook enlisted Petru in the campaign for a safer Arlington, Mass. intersection. Petru talks with Galen. https://twitter.com/PetruSofio https://www.massb

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-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, https://twitter.com/esoxeneco/status/1494129827774824448?s=20&t=Jaf90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ, and https://twitter.com/JCRiecke/status/1487869076789772288?s=20&t=Jaf90UQ-IPK43EvcWhXXDQ @40:00: LA Times editorial writer Kerry Kavanaugh on her Healthy Streets LA article about the ballot measure to force the city to implement its own mobility plan: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-15/commentary-l-a-s-mobility-plan-is-an-empty-promise-for-safer-streets-but-a-ballot-measure-could-make-it-binding -with coh

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

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 why the “Idaho Stop--” cyclists treating stop signs like yield signs and stoplights like stop signs-- is safe, sensible, and should be legal nationwide. https://bikesnobnyc.com/

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-camera-program/ Their study: https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/Red%20Light%20Cameras/2022/Sutton+Tilahun_Chicago-Camera-Ticket_Exec%20Summary-Final-Jan10.pdf The ProPublica report: https://www.propublica.org/article/chicagos-race-neutral-traffic-cameras-ticket-black-and-latino-drivers-the-most

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

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.

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-mayor-do-to-make-a-city-more-livable/ Then: Sarah Risser survived the crash that killed her son, Henry, in 2019. After the DA brushed off factors which implicated the other driver, Sarah began her journey of advocating for victims' rights. Taylor Nichols, Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee Representative for CD5, interviews Sarah. https://twitter.com/Henryz_mom Edited by Kevin Burton

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 John Greenfield, co-editor of Chicago Streetsblog.

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 Coalition. Mal and Kylie perform the new Bike Talk theme song, which they've generously agreed to let us use. https://twitter.com/sarahlaughed https://malwebb.com/ https://www.massbike.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton.

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 by Kevin Burton.

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 the road ahead. Edited by Kevin Burton.

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

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/

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

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.

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 Cruz foundation in her grandson's honor, and co-founded SoCal Safe Streets. https://zmcfoundation.org/ https://www.losangeleswalks.org/socal_fss Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, joins the Zoom from a memorial at the Massachusetts state house with flowers for all road traffic victims of 2021 . https://www.massbike.org/massbike_updates?page=1