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

1:19.70 https://on.soundcloud.com/o9tF3
Alleycats: The 23rd National Bike Summit, which wrapped up at the end of March, had an "adjacent" Alleycat ride: the Intro to Alleycat ride, or Alleycat for Dummies. Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director, interviews Joel Gwadz, organizer of the ride, along with John Yeast of New Belgium Brewery, one of the ride's sponsors. 

16:01 https://on.soundcloud.com/VdXYe
Check it: at an Alleycat checkpoint in Washington, DC, the "Love" mural in Blagden Alley, volunteers Nick Richert, Marina Smith, and Lisa Brady give away Dr. Bronner's magic chocolate bars to riders who took selfies. Volunteer Lisa Brady's day job happens to involve Safe Routes to Schools, as well as being Board President of the Treasure Valley cycling Alliance in Boise, Idaho.

22:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/rUJCD
Growing fast: An Alleycat rider's perspective on the ride resonates with history. Keshia Roberson, founder of Major Knox Adventures and presenter of They Were Seeds: The Buried Legacy of Black Wheelwomen at the National Bike Summit, interviews with Galen Mook. 

26:47 https://on.soundcloud.com/ufUoV
Tour de Bike Lanes: commuters and tourists in a DC lane are treated as Tour de France racers by Cate Cohen, in honor of her husband, DC rider David Confer, who died of liver cancer.

29:26 https://on.soundcloud.com/8bNMG
After 'cat: Galen Mook sums up the Alleycat and interviews Josh from Grand Rapids at the Alleycat afterparty.

33:16 https://on.soundcloud.com/9Ny9Q
Bike Troupe: The Agile Rascal Touring Theater's performers and, sometimes, their audiences, incorporate bikes and riding in their shows. Dara Silverman, Artistic Director, unpacks at the Summit closing reception. 

36:32 https://on.soundcloud.com/DYyg4
Representing: At the Summit's closing reception Earl Blumenauer, Congressional Representative of Portland, Oregon and founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, focused on this moment in bike advocacy. 

39:29 https://on.soundcloud.com/ydjpk
Joining the Club: Northampton, Massachusetts bike champions Adele Paquin and Ruthy Woodring reflect on their new afterschool bike club at JFK Middle School as the semester comes to an end. 

43:41 https://on.soundcloud.com/Wx9Dx
Book Soweto: Bicycle Entrepreneur Mpumi Mtintso organizes Tour de Libraries and historical bike tours in the township of Soweto, South Africa.

Bike Talk

Bike Talk - Summit

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

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.

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