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).
Emails: the bike life of musical director Tim Dyet, and Steve Weyland's counsel on ticketing riders, not blaming delivery apps in NYC (congratulations NYC by the way) (1:58).
Faulty bike infrastructure and a drunk driver blamed for deaths of cyclists Kerry Bonner, 25, and Egor Popov, 31 at Vigil and response by Patty Wiens, Bike Mayor of Winnipeg (7:25).
Charlie’s news: Carbrained NYC Councilmember Vicky Paladino (had) a challenger, FDNY urged to make safer streets, Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway safety makeover TBD, Kilian Jornet rides to 72 US summits in 31 days https://www.instagram.com/p/DPZBTuFiGGC/?hl=en (10:04).
A children's book about Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, AKA Annie Londonderry, who rode her bike around the world in 1885, is banned by the Pentagon for violating Trump's DEI policy. With author Mary Boone https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781250837127 (12:20).
Northampton's 34th annual Cyclocross event with Penny and Chloe. JAM fund explained by racers Tanya Boulanova and Ellen Noble https://www.jamcycling.org/ (24:28).
Bike LA's Bikefest with Bike LA Director Eli Akira Kaufman https://www.la-bike.org/labikefest (34:51).
Planning Taylor’s Bike Tour, Part III, with Josh Bowden of AdventureCycling(45:45).
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).
