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Saturday, June 28, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2525 - We love LA, Deliveristas, Zohran for Bikes NYC, and Picture Main Street
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0:22 At the virtual Bicycle Film Festival, Taylor sees a woman set a new record of riding a bike at 183 mph.
4:42 Nick visits Los Angeles, runs into a Hollywood ride out, and meets bike dancer Denis.
7:05 Taylor will use any pretext for a bike errand, reveals his wife Marga.
8:49 Money for protected bike lanes in Denver was about to be spent on removing them, until the Mayor’s Bike Advisory Council caught on. With Loren Hansen, Chair of the Denver MBAC.
13:59 NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ war on bikes is sending people who deliver food by bike into the jaws of criminal courts while food delivery app giants support anti-bike candidates. With Executive Director of the Workers’ Justice Project, Ligia Guallpa.
24:30 Good news in New York: a judge stopped Mayor Adams’ attempt to remove the Bedford Ave bike lane, and Zohran, NYC’s top Mayoral candidate, is super bike friendly (and just won the primary). Also, bike lane opponents at public meetings don’t seem to care about anything (besides parking spaces). With Miser, who runs the subreddit MicromobilityNYC.
48:09 A San Francisco Grand Jury Report determines the city’s failure to meet Vision Zero goals is due to lack of traffic enforcement.
49:30 Bike lane opponents in Northampton, Massachusetts, held a meeting with presenters from nearby Pittsfield, hoping to show how bike lanes that failed there would fail in Northampton, too. Their plan backfired, explains Northampton City Council candidate Benjamin Spencer.
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Saturday, June 21, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2524 - Bike Protests, Bike Hating Mayors, the BFF, and Tubes V Tubeless
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3:30 Taylor bikes to a No Kings protest, and meets a friend of the show.
6:04 Our lawyer, James Pocrass, on what to do if the authorities take your bike at a protest – and how to avoid it.
12:30 Original cohost and bike mechanic Jim Cadenhead on the plusses and minuses of tubeless tires.
20:48 Sammy’s Law was meant to allow New York City to reduce car speeds to 20 mph. NYC Mayor Adams cynically used the law to justify limiting the speed not of cars, but ebikes. This outraged many, but none more than Amy Cohen, the mother of the traffic violence victim Sammy Cohen Eckstein. Amy talks about her response, and her StreetsblogNYC article on the subject.
26:58 Alexa Sledge, Transportation Alternatives’ Communications Director, on NYC Mayor Adams’ moves to regulate ebike speed and rip out bike and safe street infrastructure.
36:13 HFX By Bike YouTuber Kevin Wilson on Halifax, Nova Scotia Mayor Andy Fillmore’s effort to “pause” construction of the city’s protected bike lane network, claiming it caused traffic congestion.
47:53 The Bicycle Film Festival is back, and it’s virtual. Taylor talks with Festival Director Brendt Barbur.
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Saturday, June 14, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2523 - An LA Bike Advocate Rebuilds Her Home, NYC Reels From Anti-Bike Laws, and Northampton High Goes Bikepacking
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2:17 LA Bike Advocate and Altadena Town Councilmember Dorothy Wong on rebuilding her home and her town after the LA fires destroyed both.
13:29 The “Born To Be Wild” bikepackers of Northampton High School reflect on their annual 4-day tour of Western Massachusetts.
24:23 New York City is dragging cyclists to criminal court for minor and sometimes made up traffic infractions under a new anti-bike policy. Kevin Duggan, StreetsblogNYC journalist, has been doing in-depth reporting, and shares his insights with us.
40:17 Streets For All, the Los Angeles advocates that brought us Healthy Streets LA, have merged with the San Francisco organization KidSafe SF, which fought for a car-free JFK Promenade and Golden Gate Park, transformed the Great Highway into Sunset Dunes Park, and made slow streets permanent. Robin Pam, Parent Organizer of KidSafe SF, tells us about becoming a chapter of Streets For All.
50:32 Audio from the May 30 Critical Mass ride in Chicago, by Rick Rosales.
54:16 Nebraska’s Vulnerable Road User Bill has passed its final vote and heads to the Governor. If passed, LB530 will strengthen penalties for speeding or harming “Vulnerable Road Users,” and require drivers to change lanes to pass when possible. By John Gibilisco.
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Saturday, June 7, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2522 - Criminalization of Bikes in NYC and Biking in The Apocalypse
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1:11 Listener email: the difference between bike packing and bike touring, and which handlebar bags and panniers to get.
7:08 New York City has begun a policy of criminalizing minor traffic violations for cyclists. We talk to Carl Mahaney of Streetopia Upper West Side and Open Plans, and Josh Wood of the New York City Bicycle Messenger Association.
28:09 The legality of criminalizing cyclists, with James Pocrass.
34:25 In other news, a NYC Critical Mass to protest overpolicing cyclists, a study showing protected bike lanes work, an Idaho Stop bill in NY, the national spread of Waymo, and a Consumer Reports petition to fix front-end blind zones in SUVs.
41:38 The author of Bicycling in Paradise and Radical Cadence in the End Times, Florida Atlantic Association Professor Stacey Balkan, talks about petroculture, Cycle Punk, Ivan Illich, and teaching these days in Florida.
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Saturday, May 31, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2521 - Bikepacking, AVs versus Cyclists, MAGA versus Ebike Battery Standards, and Bike Bills in California
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1:09 Janice Walrafen loves Bike Talk on WGDR in Vermont – a listener email.
3:05 Summer bikepacking! Nick’s Berkshires tour and Taylor’s cross country plans.
6:49 Are Waymo robotaxis safer than humans? And when AVs hit cyclists or pedestrians, who’s liable? Our lawyer, Jim Pocrass, advises.
15:21 The Consumer Protection Safety Commission regulates bikes and bike parts, and was working to develop e-bike battery standards – until the Trump administration began trying to take away its status as an independent agency and transfer its functions to the Department of Health and Human Services.
21:05 A Survey on sustainability and ebike commuting by Christophe Roncato Tounsi.
36:11 Executive Summaries of Bike Advocacy Organizations: Trilby Cox of Bike Utah, Zoe Scott of Bike Walk Tennessee, Christina Erikson of Local Motion in Vermont, and Dave Simmons of Ride Illinois.
44:49 A rundown of the California quick build and bike highway bills supported by CalBike with Policy Director Jared Sanchez.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2520 - Learn to Ride, Bike to Work, and the 100% Positive Results of NYC’s Congestion Pricing
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1:50 Nick’s daughter Penny learns to ride on two wheels using the towel technique.
7:33 Bike To Work Week with Mayor Chelsea Lee Byers in West Hollywood, CA.
11:44 Bike To Work Week in Northampton, MA with Mayor Gina Louise Sciarra, Representative Lindsay Sabadosa, and All Bodies on Bikes organizer Jacob Sheppard-Saidel.
19:50 The debate over Autonomous Vehicles’ safety record versus cyclists and pedestrians continues, with data showing AVs “generally demonstrate better safety in most scenarios,” but are “not foolproof,” according to a study from Nature Communications profiled in The Week.
24:25 Data from Congestion Pricing in NYC is all positive, according to NY Times Journalist Emily Badger and her article, Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York.
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Saturday, May 17, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2519 - Judicial Defense of Bike Rights in Canada and California, Commuting in Minneapolis, and Bike Share in Los Angeles
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2:42 Ontario Premier Doug Ford tried to remove Toronto’s bike lanes, but Toronto bike advocacy organization Cycle Toronto and allies won a court injunction pausing the removal. Executive Director Michael Longfield discusses what it means.
14:35 The City of Oakland denied liability for a cyclist’s serious injuries due to bad pavement, arguing that the liability waiver the cyclist had signed with AIDS Lifecycle applied to the City. Last week, in Whitehead v. the City of Oakland, the California Supreme Court upheld the responsibility of cities to maintain safe street conditions for bike riders. Calbike filed an amicus brief in the case supporting cyclist Ty Whitehead’s lawsuit against Oakland. Calbike Executive Director Kendra Ramsey joins us to reflect on our win.
18:52 Our lawyer, James Pocrass, unpacks the loud and clear Whitehead v. the City of Oakland decision.
26:59 Minneapolis bike commuter Tracy Stewart shares her joy, from the second happiest city in America.
36:05 Bicycle Transit Systems, which runs bike share in 15 cities, merged with B-cycle and is fighting Lyft for its LA contract. Shane Quentin, Director of Operations, and Annemarie Drolet, LA Bikeshare mechanic and BTS Shop Steward, share their thoughts and hopes.
50:50 Detroit Bike Month rides with Reo Ramsey.
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Saturday, May 10, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2518 - NIMBYs, YIMBYs, QUIMBYs and Bike Comics
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1:47 News: It’s Bike Month! Also – an Ontario, Canada court may save Toronto bike lanes, Waymo says its AVs are 25x safer than human drivers for cyclists and pedestrians on the road, Trump’s tariffs will devastate the bike industry, and Americans are losing interest in buying cars.
4:53 The QUIMBY movement = Quality In My Back Yard, and it means high quality codes/laws/permitting/planning high quality buildings, streets, bike lanes and buses, say Norm Van Eeden Petersman, Strong Towns’ Director of Membership and Development and Lindsay Sturman, Bike Talk co-host and co-founder of Livable Communities Initiative.
23:14 Artist Eleanor Davis on her comic, You and a Bike and a Road, a two-wheeled journey across the landscape of the American South.
40:45 Moving From Cars to People is a comic about how the built environment in the United States came to be designed for cars, and what we can do about it. With authors and Transportation and Communities researchers Kelly Clifton and Kristina Currans.
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Saturday, May 3, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2517 - Are You From Jersey?
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3:40 Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, assesses the lawsuit brought by Streetsblog Los Angeles editor Joe Linton. LA Metro has argued that because it’s not the city, it doesn’t have to make bike infrastructure when repaving city streets, as called for in ballot measure HLA. The agency claims it would have to destroy homes and buildings to both preserve parking and make space for bikes.
10:22 The standoff between New York and the Federal government over congestion pricing, as told by Streetsblog NYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman.
23:50 Bike JC‘s Vice President Tony Borelli, Trustees Emmanuelle Morgan and Deidre Newman, and bike maker Anke Irmscher on Jersey City’s bike ecosystem and their place in it.
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Saturday, April 26, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2516 - Up With Slow Streets, Crossings, and Infrasisters, Down With Crosswalk Creepers
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1:05 Amy, gravel rider.
3:04 News:
Street safety advocates call for protected bike lanes on California’s deadly Pacific Coast Highway.
The City of Sacramento will be the first in the Nation to use cameras on buses that detect cars parked in bike lanes.
Austin, Tx is going to spend 80,000 to remove a two-way bike lane after some neighbors complained that they could not park immediately in front of their house and had difficulty driving to their mailboxes.
6:38 Transpo Maps creator and safe streets activist Stephen Bratisch discusses how SF was able to continue the Slow Street movement after the Pandemic ended and car dominance returned.
24:35 Crossings author Ben Goldfarb on LA’s massive wildlife crossing over the 101 freeway, and what will keep wildlife from being slaughtered on roads.
40:17 Corra Boushel of Edinburgh’s Infrasisters – a group of women campaigning for night-time cycling infrastructure that’s safe and comfortable for women and girls.
54:23 Bike Thought: “Crosswalk creepers” by Our Streets Minneapolis Board President Laura Groenjes Mitchell.
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Saturday, April 19, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2515 - Different Strokes
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1:33 Healthy Streets LA, the ballot measure which requires Los Angeles to implement bike infrastructure every time city streets are repaved, is being ignored by the county’s transportation agency, LA Metro. Taylor talks with the founder of Streets For All, Michael Schneider, who led the HLA campaign, and the Editor of Streetsblog LA, Joe Linton, who’s now suing the city.
It’s been 100 years since the Los Angeles city council passed the ordinance which says that if you’re walking you have to give right of way to drivers everywhere, except for particular crossings.
New Mexico adopted the Stop as Yield Law for cyclists.
Paris reduced speed limits on the Boulevard Périphérique from 70 to 50 km/hr, resulting in reduced traffic congestion, smoother traffic flow, fewer crashes, lower air pollution, and lower noise levels.
London’s Tweed Run ride is April 29.
24:35 For National Autism Acceptance Month, Detroit’s Neila Johnson created the Cycling the Spectrum ride. Neila talks with Motown Trailblazers Bike Club President Reo Ramsey.
34:05 Cross country solo cyclist Chris Casey tells the story of his ride across the U.S..
54:36 Bike Thought: The 85th Percent Rule, by Charles Marohn.
Thanks, Ted Rogers of BikinginLA.com.
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Saturday, April 12, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2514 - Bike Vessels and Arbitrary Lines
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0:26 April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s “Put the Phone Away or Pay” campaign emphasizes education and enforcement but not engineering. Our Lawyer, Jim Pocrass, shares his practice of suing distracted drivers as a deterrent.
8:51 A driver was found guilty of Reckless Vehicular Homicide in the killing of 17 year old rising US cycling star Magnus White. She was asleep at the wheel.
11:17 What to do now that USDOT intends to kill all active transportation funding, according to the League of American Bicyclists’ Deputy Executive Director Caron Whitaker.
17:59 Eric Seals’ documentary about his father’s road trip, Bike Vessels.
36:08 Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Killed the American City, and what zoning means for bikeability. A discussion with M. Nolan Gray, author and former Teaching Assistant of parking reformer Professor Donald Shoup.
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Saturday, April 5, 2025 6:01 am
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| Bike Talk #2513 - State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented LA, and Bike storage
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1:40 Listener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean task of Omaha bike advocacy.
2:45 #Teslatakedown.
4:05 The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would remediate the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute.
15:59 Boston’s bike friendly Mayor Wu is ripping out protected bike lanes to appease the right, according to advocates like Boston Cyclists’ Union Communications Manager Mandy Wilkins.
23:17 LA architect Neal Payton on how to rebuild Los Angeles to be more bike oriented after the fires.
40:28 Bike storage is essential to more biking in cities, and Shabazz Stuart, co-founder and CEO of Oonee bike parking, wants to scale it up.
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