Ciclavia's back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day.
https://www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21

California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition.
https://www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/
https://www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/

The federal infrastructure bill is mixed, but better than nothing, says Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists. 
https://www.bikeleague.org/content/bikes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill

Julie Huntington and Sherin Bennett, who bike in NYC and LA, respectively, on yelling in the door zone.
https://twitter.com/sybbys/status/1425240152981467136?s=20

Hosted by Don Ward and Nick Richert
Edited by Kevin Burton

bike talk - Ciclavia, Calbike, the Infrastructure Bill, and Screaming in the Door Zone.

Sunset 4 All is crowdfunding a protected bike lane design for Sunset Boulevard, with traffic engineer Rock Miller doing the design for free.
https://www.sunset4all.com/
https://twitter.com/rockmiller

Rock talks with Jonathan Maus, who's seen the evolution of Portland as a bike friendly city over the past two decades in his role as the editor and founder of Bike Portland.
https://bikeportland.org/
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Maus

With an update on Los Angeles City Council motions by Streets For All founder Michael Schneider.
https://streetsforall.org/

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk – A Protected Lane Near You

Lindsay Sturman interviews Maurits Lopes Cardozo, a designer of  solutions for bicycle networks at Bike Minded; Chase Engelhardt,  Policy Analyst & Organizer with Climate Resolve; and Laura Shepherd, an organizer for Transportation Alternatives in New York City. 

Edited by Kevin Burton

Bike Talk - Bike Minds

Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bicycle co-op in Boston, Mass., on winter riding.
Galen Mook, co-founder of Common Wheels and Executive Director of Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, on Updating Massachusetts' hands free law to include apps like Facetime. 
http://www.commonwheels.org/
With a clip of a discussion between Roland Kager, Data analyst of mobility, land-use, cycling and transit, and Brett Atencio Thomas, Principal Transportation Planner at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/brett-and-roland-bike-talk-audioedited-1
Edited by Kevin Burton

Bike Talk - Winter Biking

Steve Campos on cleaning Northeast Los Angeles' seminal bike co-op, the Bike Oven, after years of dysfunction. 
Eli Wheeler of Common Wheels, a mobile bike co-op in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. 
Luis Fernandez on finding a new space for the Bike Kitchen in Dorchester, another Boston neighborhood. 
Amber Drea, a Streetsblog Chicago reporter, on the North Lawndale Bike Box, a new community cycle shop in a shipping container.
Edited by Kevin Burton

Bike Talk – Space for Co-ops

Lloyd Alter, blogger at Treehugger.org, talks about his article, "Politicians and Planners Are Missing The E-Bike Revolution" with Galen Mook, Bike Talk host and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition. 

Dr. Natalia Barbour, Assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, and Courtney Cobbs, E-Bike enthusiast, co-editor of Streetsblog Chicago, and Co-founder of Better Streets Chicago, talk e-bikes with Taylor Nichols of the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee. 

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk - E-Bike Revolution

Deliveristas Unidos organizes New York City bike delivery workers for a livable wage and the right to organize, in addition to some other basic protections. An organizer named Josh talks to Galen Mook, MassBike Executive Director. 

Edited by Kevin Burton. 

Then-Megan Ramey of Hood River, Oregon talks about starting a bike train for parents dropping their kids off at school, Bike Twitter, and her bike tourism site, Bikabout.com.

Bike Talk - NYC's Delivery Worker's Union and Bike Trains of the Pacific Northwest

Michael Schneider, founder Streets for All, goes over the highs and lows of 2021 for safe streets in Los Angeles with Don Ward and Lindsay Sturman.
https://streetsforall.org/

Then-New Year's resolutions from a #bikeTwitter perspective with Nick (AKA John Forester's Worst Nightmare).
https://twitter.com/C_rless

Edited by Kevin Burton

Bike Talk - Michael Schneider's 2021 Wrapup with Nick AKA John Forester's Worst Enemy

The Netherlands: The Estonian ambassador rides a bike as his official diplomatic vehicle. Lauri Kuusing talks about that and the impact of the Ukraine situation with Lindsay Sturman.
https://twitter.com/LKuusing/status/1494332848790069261?s=20&t=dwBx54MFY4j5QNGqysP3HQ

@12:34:

California: Eli Akira Kaufman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition, talks to Taylor Nichols about the Healthy Streets LA initiative, which “provided a vision of what the city could be like if we provided people-centered infrastructure,” their "Sunset For All" campaign, and developing a "street advocacy playbook and training academy."
https://www.la-bike.org/

@41:07:

Massachusetts: Petru Sofio, a Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition intern, was a traffic and bike lane prodigy, drawing maps of his neighborhood streetlights as a child. Executive Director of MassBike Galen Mook enlisted Petru in the campaign for a safer Arlington, Mass. intersection. Petru talks with Galen. 
https://twitter.com/PetruSofio
https://www.massbike.org/

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk - Healthy Streets Around The World

Northampton, Massachusetts residents are organizing in the wake of Charlie Braun's car killing. George Kahout, President of Friends of Northampton Trails, and Elena Huisman, with Main Street For Everyone, talk to Galen Mook, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bike Coalition. 
https://mainst4everyone.org/
http://fntrails.org/
https://www.massbike.org/
https://www.gazettenet.com/Driver-who-struck-killed-Northampton-musician-charged-43390653

Then, @ 27:00, 
Laura Keenan, whose husband, Matt, was killed by a distracted driver in September, has been advocating for immediate improvements to bike infrastructure using "quick builds." Laura has some thoughts about the protected bike lane debates she's been seeing. 
Laura talks with "Grandma" Beverly Shelton of Southern California Families for Safe Streets, whose course as a safe streets advocate was set when her grandson, Zachary, was killed by a negligent driver in 2009.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/story/2022-01-03/san-diego-cyclists-safety
https://blog.aarp.org/livable-communities/grandchilds-death-highlights-need-to-protect-pedestrians

@ 45:00, Eso Eco of San Francisco interviews Ben Fryman of Portland and Halima Maadow of Maryland on loony bikelash and bike fashion.
https://twitter.com/PGon2wheels
https://twitter.com/BFryback
https://twitter.com/esoxeneco

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk - Talking Safe Streets

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