Bike Talk

The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. + Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston's Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy. https://www.ciclavia.org/ Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen "Coal-rolled" a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or ticketed. https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/10/waller-bike-crash/ Edited by Kevin Burton.

Dave Snyder, California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Gavin Newsom's surprising veto of two Calbike sponsored bills-- A.B. 122, the Bicycle Safety Stop, and A.B. 1238, the Pedestrian Access Bill-- and Assemblymember Laura Friedman's AB 1147, which would have created 15 minute neighborhoods and bicycle highways. Michael Schneider, Streets For All Founder, talks to Don Ward about plans to get bike infrastructure included in all new LA street design. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, "complete streets plus," and how Victoria's City Council "just built it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s

Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, AB43, her point of view on safe streets, and everything. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom's desk: AB 43: Allow lower speed limits AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields AB 773: Making slow streets permanent AB 1238: Repealing jaywalking laws Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bicycle and Transit researcher Niels Van Oort is here interviewed by Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman on an overview of research into combined bicycle and transit mode: https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/overview-bicycletransit-research/ http://smartptlab.tudelft.nl/our-group/niels-van-oort Edited by Kevin Burton.

California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects. With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned interviews Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS.org, on how the bicycle transform cities, and cities transform the world. With emphasis on the BYCS.org "Bicycle Mayors" program in the U.S. and what these amazing volunteer leaders are doing to forward this call.

Sunset 4 All is crowdfunding a protected bike lane design for Sunset Boulevard, with traffic engineer Rock Miller doing the design for free. https://www.sunset4all.com/ https://twitter.com/rockmiller Rock talks with Jonathan Maus, who's seen the evolution of Portland as a bike friendly city over the past two decades in his role as the editor and founder of Bike Portland. https://bikeportland.org/ https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus With an update on Los Angeles City Council motions by Streets For All founder Michael Schneider. https://streetsforall.org/ Edited by Kevin Burton.

Ciclavia's back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day. https://www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21 California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition. https://www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/ https://www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/ The federal infrastructure bill is mixed, but better than nothing, says Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists. https://www.bikeleague.org/content/bikes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill Julie Huntington and Sherin Bennett, who bike in NYC and LA, respectively, on yelling in the door zone. https://twitter.com/sybbys/status/1425240152981467136?s=20 Hosted by Don Ward and Nick Richert Edited by Kevin Burton

Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy, talks to Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned about who we plan for, planning not for cycling as it is but how it will be, how people respond to change, getting more people on bikes, decision makers on bikes, changing the narrative of cycling, overcoming barriers to getting funding for active travel, Low Traffic Neighborhoods as a term and in practice, cycle logistics and vans versus cargo bikes, bike infrastructure improvements, helping the average person get into cycling, Active Travel Academy, the language of crashes, and the connection between climate emergency and road change.

Bruce Donald has a long history of leading trail and greenway organizations. He was president of the nonprofit Farmington Valley Trails Council for 12 years, Chair of the Connecticut Committee of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and Chair of the Governor’s Connecticut Greenways Council. So, he knows how it’s going with greenways. https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bruce/s-nEIYGIejcu0

Don and Nick virtually explore bike use in Western Massachusetts with Shannon Bliven, Community Outreach and Business Development person at Valley Bike Share https://www.valleybike.org/, and Ruthy Woodring, co-founder of Pedal People, a worker's collective that hauls trash and compost in Northampton and surrounding areas. https://www.pedalpeople.coop/

Craig Della Penna worked in the railroad industry, and wrote a series of books on the history of old railroad lines converted to walking and biking trails. Craig also worked at the New England Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to prevent bad policy at the state and local level, “parachuting” into rail trail wars in the northeast. He is the Executive Director of the The Norwottuck Network, a non-profit org that supports the Mass Central Rail Trail. Craig is also a realtor specializing in properties near rail trails. https://www.nnnetwork.net/ www.Gs2021.org https://www.traillink.com/

What's in the new federal transportation bill? Cohosts Don Ward and Nick Richert asked: Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Cyclists, Mike McGinn, Executive Director of America Walks, and Kea Wilson, Senior Editor of Streetsblog USA. Edited by Kevin Burton. https://www.streetsblog.org/author/kea-wilson/ https://bikeleague.org/league-vocabulary/federal-news

Melissa and Chris Bruntlett share the Netherlands model of reducing cars to create livable cities. Their new book, Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives is available at https://www.modacitylife.com/curbing-traffic

Bowinn Ma on how riding a cargo ebike has helped build accessibility and trust with constituents while informing her role as MLA and Minister of State for Infrastructure in North Vancouver-Lonsdale, British Columbia. https://twitter.com/BowinnMa

The Bicycle Mayor Network by Amsterdam-based BYCS.org is a global initiative which promotes the bicycle as a solution to some of the most complex urban challenges. Interviews with Bike Mayors Arcy Canumay of Waterloo, Canada and Jillian Banfield of Halifax, Canada; also, Lucas Snaije, BYCS Content and Communications Manager. Plus a bike manifesto from Lindsay Sturman https://twitter.com/LindsayJS Co-hosted by Don Ward, Nick Richert, Lindsay Sturman, and Terence Heuston. Edited by Kevin Burton.