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

Transcript: bit.ly/40mUafj

Intro: Seamus and Don at the San Fernando Valley CicLAvia

0:52 https://on.soundcloud.com/vXEK4
Counsel: Los Angeles' City Council District 4 Councilmember Nithya Raman at CicLAvia on biking, the need to get people out of cars, and what can get the LA City Council to implement the City's mobility plan. With Seamus Garrity.

13:14 https://on.soundcloud.com/CFyTx
Beautiful day: Metrics of success at CicLAvia in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, with Tafarai Bayne, CicLAvia's Chief Strategist. By Seamus Garrity.

14:20 https://on.soundcloud.com/4Gq7J
Origin story: How a volcano may have inspired the invention of the bicycle, with Lindsay Sturman and Seamus Garrity.

17:45 https://on.soundcloud.com/86ap6
Culture: Although France is thought of, rightly, as surpassing countries like the U.S. in bike and safe streets infrastructure, rural roads can be unsafe for cyclists. Recovering engineer Charles Marohn and Beate Kubitz, a new resident of Feuilla, France, discuss the need to create cycling culture in rural areas.

35:49 https://on.soundcloud.com/crKgo
911: A state of emergency has been declared in Carlsbad, California because of rising cyclist deaths. Taylor Nichols discusses the issue with Del Mar Times reporter Luke Harold and San Diego Bicycle Coalition Advocacy Director Will Rhatigan. https://www.delmartimes.net/news/story/2022-10-02/the-accident-data-behind-carlsbads-local-emergency-proclamation-for-e-bike-bicycle-accidents

48:50 https://on.soundcloud.com/4rPGA
Visualize it: The U.S. Department of Transportation has released new charts showing the cities with most and least traffic fatalities per capita, a departure from the USDOT's more car-centric metric of traffic deaths per vehicle mile travelled. Streetsblog USA Editor Kea Wilson unpacks the data. https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea/status/1623753663863717889

Editing by Kevin Burton.
Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.
Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.
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Bike Talk - State of Emergence

KCRW Radio Race 2015
Personal Time, Social Change
Team: Tie Me To The Mast
Produced by: Nona Varnado and Ben Michelsen

Tie Me To The Mast: Personal Time, Social Change

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

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

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