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 tech: Dynamo lights and pocket compressors (0:19).
Charlie’s News (4:21).
Two authors on what we’ve lost by making kids car dependent: author of A Love Letter to Suburbia Diane Alisa interviews co-author of Curbing Traffic Melissa Bruntlett on her chapter, Child-Friendly City https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781642831658 (6:51).
The delights of a Slovenian bike tour with Hour Away guide Nejc Peternelj and Taylor’s brother John & Sister in Law Alice, who took the tour by ebike https://www.hour-away.com/cycling-holidays/guided (22:34).
Bike Ped Committee Chair Kristen Sykes interviews Holyoke, Massachusetts Mayor Joshua Garcia about countering car culture with complete streets on the 3rd annual Holyoke Mayoral ride (43:18).
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).
