Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get behind (3:11).
Charlie’s News: The City of Malibu approves safety plans for deadly PCH, a Queens, NY City Council seat is kept by an anti-bike zealot, Doug Ford seeks to repress debate on his speed camera ban, and California’s ebike incentives are swapped for a car trade-in program https://www.calbike.org/response-to-carb-on-ending-the-e-bike-incentive-project/ (6:32).
A Dia De Los Muertos vigil “remembering fallen ridazz” at the Bike Oven in Los Angeles, with Joe Borfo https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZuZD6j6kp/?igsh=MWI2MDB1cWM3OHpkYQ%3D%3D (9:11).
Los Angeles bicycle casualty statistics and what we are doing about it, with our LA bike lawyer James Pocrass (11:25).
House Transportation Committee Chair S. Graves says “we’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths” in the Transportation Reauthorization Bill, which determines spending for the next 5 years. League of American Bicyclists Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker walks us through that. Also, the League’s upcoming Bike Summit https://bikeleague.org (17:50).
A New York City transportation advocates panel with Alexa Sledge, Communications Director of Transportation Alternatives, Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman and writer Sophia Lebowitz, Streetopia Upper West Side Director Carl Mahaney, and veteran NYC safe streets activist Charles Komanoff on their hopes for a Mamdani Mayoral administration (22:34).
Bikes were winners in Minneapolis elections, says Our Streets Minneapolis board President Laura Mitchell https://bsky.app/profile/lauragmitchell.com (49:45).
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Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get behind (3:11).
Charlie’s News: The City of Malibu approves safety plans for deadly PCH, a Queens, NY City Council seat is kept by an anti-bike zealot, Doug Ford seeks to repress debate on his speed camera ban, and California’s ebike incentives are swapped for a car trade-in program https://www.calbike.org/response-to-carb-on-ending-the-e-bike-incentive-project/ (6:32).
A Dia De Los Muertos vigil “remembering fallen ridazz” at the Bike Oven in Los Angeles, with Joe Borfo https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZuZD6j6kp/?igsh=MWI2MDB1cWM3OHpkYQ%3D%3D (9:11).
Los Angeles bicycle casualty statistics and what we are doing about it, with our LA bike lawyer James Pocrass (11:25).
House Transportation Committee Chair S. Graves says “we’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths” in the Transportation Reauthorization Bill, which determines spending for the next 5 years. League of American Bicyclists Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker walks us through that. Also, the League’s upcoming Bike Summit https://bikeleague.org (17:50).
A New York City transportation advocates panel with Alexa Sledge, Communications Director of Transportation Alternatives, Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman and writer Sophia Lebowitz, Streetopia Upper West Side Director Carl Mahaney, and veteran NYC safe streets activist Charles Komanoff on their hopes for a Mamdani Mayoral administration (22:34).
Bikes were winners in Minneapolis elections, says Our Streets Minneapolis board President Laura Mitchell https://bsky.app/profile/lauragmitchell.com (49:45).
Bike Lawyer Andrew Lewis on defending Cycle Toronto and saving Toronto's most popular bike lanes from the populist, tricky, anti-bike lane administration of Ontario Premier Doug Ford (0:29).
Cities like Los Angeles lose hundreds of millions in lawsuits due to traffic injuries and fatalities on their streets. They could save lives and money by using their streets budgets to build protected bike networks, our bike lawyer James Pocrass argues (11:15).
As cities like NYC make war on ebikes, Upway, an online and physical marketplace for refurbished e-bikes, aims to make ebikes more affordable and accessible. With Marta Anadón, Upway Head of US (17:05).
Taylor talks to the Parking Reform Network CEO Tony Jordan on how to organize people against parking mandates. With Los Angeles mid city west Neighborhood Council transportation committee member David Sobel (33:00).
Bike History takes a literary spin in The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler, about a woman who rides her bike as a professional detective in turn-of-the-20th-century Chicago (47:50).
Bike Talk
Email: Reese, a listener, says we shouldn’t assume conservatives don’t listen to Bike Talk, like Nick said in the previous episode. We all agree: biking embodies values everybody can and should get behind (3:11).
Charlie’s News: The City of Malibu approves safety plans for deadly PCH, a Queens, NY City Council seat is kept by an anti-bike zealot, Doug Ford seeks to repress debate on his speed camera ban, and California’s ebike incentives are swapped for a car trade-in program https://www.calbike.org/response-to-carb-on-ending-the-e-bike-incentive-project/ (6:32).
A Dia De Los Muertos vigil “remembering fallen ridazz” at the Bike Oven in Los Angeles, with Joe Borfo https://www.instagram.com/p/DQZuZD6j6kp/?igsh=MWI2MDB1cWM3OHpkYQ%3D%3D (9:11).
Los Angeles bicycle casualty statistics and what we are doing about it, with our LA bike lawyer James Pocrass (11:25).
House Transportation Committee Chair S. Graves says “we’re not gonna be spending money on murals and train stations or bike paths or walking paths” in the Transportation Reauthorization Bill, which determines spending for the next 5 years. League of American Bicyclists Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker walks us through that. Also, the League’s upcoming Bike Summit https://bikeleague.org (17:50).
A New York City transportation advocates panel with Alexa Sledge, Communications Director of Transportation Alternatives, Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman and writer Sophia Lebowitz, Streetopia Upper West Side Director Carl Mahaney, and veteran NYC safe streets activist Charles Komanoff on their hopes for a Mamdani Mayoral administration (22:34).
Bikes were winners in Minneapolis elections, says Our Streets Minneapolis board President Laura Mitchell https://bsky.app/profile/lauragmitchell.com (49:45).
