Bike Talk

Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet interviews Adé Neff, founder of Ride On! Bike Shop/Co-Op, a full-service worker-owned bike shop directly in the heart of South LA's Leimert Park in her latest edition of We The People-Black Lives Roll 'En.

Nick and Don talk with Alexandria Contreras, candidate for Downey City Council District One (https://www.alexfordowney.com/). She's working to unseat the pro-freeway Mayor of Downey, and speaks about the injustice (environmental, economic, and racial) of Metro and Caltrans' planned removal of 200 homes to widen the 605 freeway. With LA Streetsblog editor Joe Linton. Then-a rousing discussion about bike-related entries in the Better Cities Film Festival, open through 10/11 at https://bcff2020.eventive.org/welcome. If you see one of the, please join our zoom A 20% DISCOUNT CODE IS GIVEN to listeners for Bicycling & Cities (https://watch.eventive.org/.../play/5f50eb1e1537cc0045f6c25d) Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet interviews Adé Neff, founder of Ride On! Bike Shop/Co-Op, a full-service worker-owned bike shop directly in the heart of South LA's Leimert Park in her latest edition of We The People-Black Lives Roll 'En.

0- Deputy Public Defender and organizer with Ground Game (https://www.groundgamela.org/)Ace Kitano breaks down how cyclist Dijon Kizee was executed at the end of a string of events which began with a minor violation. 32:08- Ca. State Senator Scott Weiner and Laura Friedman on their triumphant passage of SB 288, which exempts environmentally beneficial projects like bike lanes from costly and time consuming CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) requirements. This interview includes a heads up on the frightening, ignorant attacks on Weiner from Q-anon types for his closing of an antiquated anti-gay legal loophole. 1:01:07- Michael Schneider of Streets For All summarizes his article on the backroom snuffing out of the inspirational Uplift Melrose project(https://medium.com/@michaelschneider_5797/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-in-los-angeles-11bbb952fd92), the incomplete streets views of some LA Council Members, and his virtual happy hour with LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds. 1:28:08- Eric Ochoa's Sports Report

Don Ward & Nick Richert interview Jimmy Lizama, Founder of LA's seminal Bike Kitchen. Jimmy is the owner and head mechanic of Relámpago Wheelery, a bike shop across the street from his LA Ecovillage home. Jimmy touches on the kinds of connections to community that his work with bikes has been about, and shares his thoughts on a recent LA Times article which views DTLA through the lens of his role as messenger/owner of Don't Shoot The Bicycle Messenger: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-27/downtown-la-survive-covid-19-pandemic Yolanda Davis-Overstreet interviews World Bicycle Relief's M&E Director Alisha Myers in this segment of her 'We The People: Black Lives Roll 'En' series. Alisha discusses how she made a life and found a global community with bikes: https://worldbicyclerelief.org/(29:25). Don and Nick interview the Chair of the Santa Clarita Valley Bicycle Coalition, Nina Moskol, who gives us a little history and shares routes for navigating her city by bike. Nina is currently working o

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3 public service tweets by @LindsayJS- https://twitter.com/LindsayJS/status/1191176533764759552?s=20 (1:59) @tomflood1-https://twitter.com/tomflood1/status/1278762412322312194?s=20 (29:49) @QAGreenways (Mark Ostrow, interviewed by new Bike Talk reporter Eric Ochoa)- https://twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/1296119355269238784?s=20 (49:21) -with reactions by Don Ward