The Safety Stop Bill (AB 122), sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition, would allow California cyclists to treat stop signs like 'Yield' signs. It's the Idaho Stop Law, and research shows it improves safety. See:
https://www.calbike.org/category/the_latest/?fbclid=IwAR0nikaUW6DC0kLOJrce3DjEFLkVGXTM_7HXYqR-Y3BG-o6AqJo5nAqUN6U

Dave Snyder, Executive Director of California Bicycle Coalition, with California Streetsblog Editor Melanie Curry, Grace Peng, Gabby Gee, and surprise guest 43rd District California Assemblymember and new Transportation Committee Chair Laura Friedman.

Hosted by Don Ward and Nick Richert

Bike Talk - Our Own Idaho Stop Law

LA Bike Advocate and Altadena Town Councilmember Dorothy Wong on rebuilding her home and her town after the LA fires destroyed both (2:17).

The "Born To Be Wild" bikepackers of Northampton High School reflect on their annual 4-day tour of Western Massachusetts (13:29).

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 (24:23). 

Streets For All, the Los Angeles advocates that brought us Healthy Streets LA, has 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 (40:17).

Audio from the May 30 Critical Mass ride in Chicago, by Rick Rosales (50:32).

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 (54:16). 

#2523 - An LA Bike Advocate Rebuilds, Northampton Bikepacking, and NYC Reels From Anti-Bike Laws

on April 6th 2015, 22 year old Matt Stoltze began riding solo and unsupported for a 11,155 mile journey to all 30 MLB ballparks in the US and Canada. I interview him during a stop in Los Angeles.

Recorded on an iPhone 4s
https://www.bikingforbaseball.org/

Biking for Baseball

Charlie’s News: NYC sets a 15mph limit on ebikes, a new Seattle bike lane also works for trucks, ultralight emergency response cargo bikes, and the impact of tariffs on the bike industry https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/pfb-responds-to-tariff-announcement (3:00).

No Drive Halloween campaign (4:26).

Ontario, Canada Premier Doug Ford is trying to ban speed cameras and bike lanes in an all out war on safety and active transportation- but there's active resistance from Dr. Carrie Mitchell, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo who started a petition calling for the speed camera ban to be reversed https://www.change.org/p/reverse-the-decision-on-speed-cameras-in-ontario (5:08).

The classifications of ebikes in New York City is confusing, and riders are paying the cost. Nick talks with Sophia Lebowitz about her article in Streetsblog NYC https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/21/the-problem-with-e-bikes-the-super-fast-illegal-ones (13:20).

A brief on the legal implications of misleading ebike categories with James Pocrass, Personal Injury attorney (26:46).

NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is questioned on ticketing ebike riders in a debate. Opponents Cuomo and Sliwa want more ticketing, but Mamdani’d rather look at incentives to speed from food delivery app companies like DoorDash and Grubhub (32:04).

Planning Taylor’s bike tour, Part 2: logistics and planning. With Josh Bowden, Experiences Operations Specialist of Adventure Cycling (34:03).

#2543 Ebikelash

LA Streetsblog Editor Damien Newton at the LA Street Summit (1:19), with pre-recordings of Janette Sadik-Khan at Occidental College and Congressman Earl Blumenauer's 2007 Bike Commuter Act speech; East Hollywood Neighborhood Council President David Bell (1:04)

LA Street Summit--March 20, 2010

An opportunity for community, business, and other organizations to improve their streets–explained by Claire Bowin, LA Senior City Planner, to Jennifer Gill and Nick Richert.

Great Streets Challenge

The War On Cars, a new podcast from Sarah Goodyear (@buttermilk1), Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke), and Aaron Naparstek (@Naparstek). Produced by Curtis Fox. Music by Nathaniel Goodyear.

In this pilot episode, we discuss why the world needs a War on Cars and ask if tech—and more specifically tech companies—can save our cities from the car. Are e-scooters, Lyft buses, and self-driving Ubers running through Elon Musk's tunnels the wave of the future, or are they a harbinger of dystopia?

Episode 1: Why the World Needs a War on Cars

with Stephen Box, Public Information Officer of Empower LA, Scott Epstein, Chair of the Mid City West Community Council, Leyna Lightman, recipient of a Vision Zero Artistic Intervention grant from the City of Los Angeles, and Luke Klipp, Budget Analyst for the Los Angeles Metro

Neighborhood Councils, Grassroots Activism, and Local Power

Jennifer Gill interviews Robert Michelson on his Cuban bike tours


https://cubacochinito.com/

Cuba "Cochinito"

What can we gaint for safe streets at this moment? 
Emeryville, Ca. Councilmembers Ally Medina and John Bauters (with clip of Culver City Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells) on the elimination of "beg buttons" to prevent infection. The buttons  "save people in their cars a few *seconds* here and there, at the expense of added *minutes* here and there for people walking" (https://www.sfgate.com/travel/resources/transit/article/Emeryville-beg-buttons-bay-area-covid-19-15192701.php)
and
Dave Campbell, Advocacy Director for Bike East Bay, on the city of Oakland's 74 miles of "Slow Streets," closed to through traffic. 
With the Executive Director of Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Eli Akira Kaufman.
Headlines by Have a Go (https://mailchi.mp/04d0e21b1985/have-a-go-micromobility-newsletter-1558048)

Silver Linings

Mike Gatto, former California state Assemblymember for the 43rd Assembly District and legislative champion for safer streets, has been getting around LA without a car for almost a decade.

plus: 

Zachary Rynew, a.k.a Ciclavalley, Zooms with us about bikes and economics from a block party at 39:53

Bruce Bellamy, LA bike legend, chats with us after his Juneteenth ride about LA rides and riders at 50:49

Mike Gatto, Carless Ca. Assemblymember; Rynew & Bellamy, LA Cyclists

We are a bike advocacy and culture podcast based in Los Angeles, Ca.

#2543 Ebikelash

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