Bike Talk BikeTalk

Reimagining streets on Willoughby in West Hollywood California and W. 72nd on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with PhD Transportation Researcher Miriam Pinski and Carl Mahaney, Director of StreetopiaUWS.
0:52

Listener Email: Dan Murphy on hi-viz clothing: a low cost safety measure, or victim blaming?
14:57

The Great American Rail Trail, the nation’s first cross-country multiuse trail, will stretch more than 3,700 miles between Washington, D.C., and Washington State. Powell County, Montana Planning Director Amanda Cooley and Kevin Belle, Project Manager at Rails to Trails Conservancy, tell Taylor Nichols all about it.
20:05

Re:ciclos: a program which aims to create wider access to cargo bicycle technology and empowerment of youth in black and brown communities by exposure to fabrication, mechanics, advocacy, outreach, and community. Re:ciclos founder Jimmy Lizama talks with Ava Maria.
38:56

Stacey's Bike Thought
55:23

Legal Moment: Can companies be held liable when employees crash while phone-multitasking? With attorney Jim Pocrass.
2:29

Skaters Who Bike in Phoenix are expanding to other cities and towns. With Tim Ward.
8:54

A comprehensive look at years of research shows that Bike Lanes Are Good for Business. Taylor talks with journalist Adam Rogers about his article, https://www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-good-for-business-studies-better-streets-2024-3#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBut%20once%20a%20street%20is,senior%20correspondent%20at%20Business%20Insider.
15:10

Journalist Alison Griswold and Anne Marie Drolet talk on Lyft's thwarted attempt to take over Metro Los Angeles' bike share system, and Why Lyft is Running From Bikeshare: https://slate.com/business/2023/08/lyft-bike-share-citibike-motivate-uber.html
37:37

Bike Thought by Stacey.
54:12

Listener email: an endorsement for Charles Marohn's "empathy for the driver," D.C. bike infrastructure, and an inquiry about our theme song, "Bike:" https://www.malwebb.com/bike.html
2:41

The entire state of California and the individual cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Los Angeles have proposed or passed measures which implement bike plans when repaving roads. With Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Robert Printz.
7:19

California isn't the only leader in bike friendly legislation; heads of bike and safe streets organizations in New York City, Minneapolis, Detroit, Massachusetts, and Paris share their success stories.
17:20

ValleyBike, Massachusetts’ 2nd largest bikeshare, went bankrupt. Carolyn Misch, Sustainability Director of the city of Northampton, MA., talks about the lesson therein, and how bikeshare can be sustainable.
28:26

Union-busting, bikeshare-fleeing Lyft's bid to replace the current Los Angeles bikeshare vendor, Bicycle Transit Systems, failed. Anne Marie Drolet, Chief Shop Steward of Metro Bikes LA, gives some context.
47:52

Listener email: can companies be sued for letting employees do virtual meetings or read work docs while driving?
49:52

Traffic by Don.
50:52

Bike Thought by Stacey.
52:01

Access to Hollywood program will add protected bike and bus lanes and cause “traffic evaporation” on LA’s Hollywood Boulevard. Taylor Nichols with LA City Council District 4 Field Deputy Mehmet Berker.
2:01

Personal injury lawyer Jim Pocrass explains the legal grounds for taking the lane.
8:35

Live To Ride: Finding Joy and Meaning on a Bicycle, the book. With author and journalist Peter Flax. https://bookshop.org/a/99134/9781648291319
23:00

Northern Virginia Opens New “66-Parallel” Bike And Walking Trail. With Fairfax Alliance for Better Biking founder Bruce Wright. https://fabb-bikes.org/divi_overlay/bruce-wright/
40:58

Bike thought by Stacey.
54:37

Listener Email: Jonathan Weiss on how much harder it is to get a driver's license in Europe than in the U.S., and what that means for everyone.
1:06

The Best Bike Light is reviewed by Reo Ramsey of Motown Trailblazers in Detroit.
2:52

Listener Email: Jonathan Levin on how shaming drivers causes intransigence.
6:20

Recovering Engineer and Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn on gaining local control over streets to make them safer for everybody, and, to that end, refraining from shaming drivers as in this tweet: https://x.com/clmarohn/status/1759392452262203397?s=20
With Stacey Randecker.
9:53

2 new anthologies of Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction from Bikenomics author Elly Blue and Microcosm Publishing: Bikes, the Universe, and Everything and The Bicyclist's Guide to the Galaxy.
30:20

A Bike Life Rideout in Springfield, Massachusetts.
50:06

Bike Thought by Stacey.
54:40

Winter Riding in Utah
0:23

the Healthy Streets LA ballot measure was approved by voters last week. If it does what is intended, LA will finally be forced to implement its own mobility plan, bike lanes and all. Michael Schneider, founder of Streets For All, reports on the success of his organization's measure.
2:31

Listener email from Børge A. Roum in Norway.
9:11

Charles Marohn, author of "Confessions of a Recovering Engineer" and founder of Strong Towns, reflects on why we shouldn’t ridicule people in oversized cars, but rather “draw a larger circle of empathy” to include drivers in a tweet and here.
https://twitter.com/clmarohn/status/1759392452262203397
13:30

Transportation Alternatives NYC and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created https://www.spatialequity.nyc/, a tool for comparing Spatial Equity across districts in NYC. With TransAlt Communications Director Alexa Sledge.
44:45

Bike Thought by Stacey
53:30