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BikeTalk

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

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00:58:00

Bike Talk #2506 - Donald Shoup, Parking Reformer; 15...

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2025/02/13

Donald Shoup, author of "The High Cost of Free Parking," has died. Tony Jordan, President of the Parking Reform Network, talks about Shoup's decades of teaching, writing, and speaking on reversing subsidized free car storage (1:16). Find our interviews with the Professor of Parking by searching "Shoup" at biketalk.org. CalBike Joins Amicus Brief in Safe Streets Accountability Case after lower courts categorized bike riders as “recreational” street users who venture onto public streets at their

01:00:10

Bike Talk 2505 - Bikes for kids in LA and Florida,...

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2025/02/05

Taylor almost gets killed, and Stacey does get hit (1:14).Taylor fixes up bikes for fire victims in Los Angeles with Jim Shanman and Walk n Rollers (5:10). News, powered by Ted Rogers' Bikinginla.com (9:41): Waymo reports AVs are safer than human drivers. Bike theft increased 15% last year The League of American Bicyclists is out with their latest list of the country’s most Bicycle Friendly Communities A new report says California is the most car dependent state A new study shows bicycling has

00:57:59

Bike Talk 2504 - Conservative values support biking....

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2025/01/30

Bike Lawyer James Pocrass on what it's like to bike in Los Angeles with the fires still burning, avoiding scams, and wearing masks (0:47). With fewer cars and fewer injuries, the congestion pricing zone in NYC is like Sunday all week, according to StreetsblogNYC Editor Gersh Kuntzman (6:39). News: bike crashes are reduced at intersections with Stop-as-yield laws, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds (14:27). Listener Rick Bosacker writes & asks for a Bike Talk on how

00:58:09

Bike Talk - Bike Touring, Motornormativity, and...

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2025/01/23

Cohosts Taylor, Nick, Lindsay and Stacey ponder possible effects of the new administration on bikes, cars, and infrastructure (0:57).Listener Email: Reese Bastion writes about motonormativity, the acceptance of public hazards from cars where similar hazards like smoking wouldn't be tolerated. This sparks a discussion about how the framework that led to smoking in public being banned could apply to oversized SUVs (4:52). Listener bike tours: Rick Bosacker, M.D., of New Zealand calls from a

01:00:18

Bike Talk - An LA Story-The Fires, Dorothy, The Bike...

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2025/01/14

Altadena Town Councilmember, Bike Educator/activist, cyclocross champion and race organizer Dorothy Wong lost her house in the fires, along with all her bikes. She reflects with Culver City Councilmember Bubba Fish-also a bike activist (1:39). The Bike Oven of Highland Park, long a community hub for DIY bike repair, has become an emergency aid distribution center. Volunteer Joe Borfo talks to us about their operation (40:57). News: Entitled driver rages against kids on bikes. Then, the kids

00:59:30

Bike Talk - Costa Rica, Congestion Pricing NYC, and...

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2025/01/09

In honor of the New Year, Nick shares his mission statement for Bike Talk, and compares his acting career with Taylor's (0:35). Taylor interviews a Costa Rican mountain biker on his recent trip to Costa Rica (4:15)... and shares his mission statement for Bike Talk (8:30). News: On Day 1 of Congestion Pricing in NYC, Transportation Alternatives Communications Director Alexa Sledge shares her observations (9:38). A new California law defines "e-bike" (17:26). Studies: Listener "Big E" emails

00:58:47

Bike Talk - Bike Grid nation repost

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2025/01/02

Midnight Rida/Bike Oven volunteer Joe Borfo lends Bike Talk his tandem for a new logo(0:26). News: Bill 212 passes, allowing Ontario Premier Doug Ford to proceed with removing Toronto's popular bike lanes despite data that shows they're successful. Congestion pricing starts in NYC (4:57). A Winnipeg rider, Patty Wiens, responds to Taylor’s LA-centric comments about winter riding “on a trainer in the basement” back east (6:39). Why Are American Drivers so Deadly? NY Times writer Matthew Shaer

00:58:10

Bike Talk - Bike Love (repost)

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2024/12/25

National Bike News: car related crime, TAP funding, and the EXPLORE act passage. Studies: E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world, and vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians (6:23). What to do in a bike crash, with LA Personal Injury Attorney Jim Pocrass (9:32). Livable Communities: bikes, transit, and housing. Liveable Communities Initiative founder Lindsay Sturman and Taylor Nichols (15:48). “Hating Bike

01:00:14

Bike Talk - Ebike Police State in NYC; The Road...

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2024/12/18

An email from avid listener Rick Bosacker, who gets the joke about "avid cyclists." He's on a 13 month world tour with his family, who are differently avid. Taylor gets route help from Canadian cyclists Dan and Lynette Markham in bike-unfriendly Laguna Beach, California (2:12) Bike Friendly States' ranking highlights by the League of American Bicyclists' Policy Director Ken Macleod (5:19) Intro 606 bill would require the licensing of ebikes in NYC, and make every person on a bike a target-

00:53:58

Bike Talk - Bike Fights, Loser Lanes, Organizing...

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2024/12/11

The Ebike Getaway of Luigi Mangioni (1:28)An overview of the Washington Area Bicycle Coalition, WABA, by Elizabeth Kiker, Executive Director (5:29) The Evanston, IL Bike Lane Debate as told by Streetsblog Chicago Editor John Greenfield (7:46) People who bike were betrayed by the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure’s watering down of a protected bike lane, say Denver Bike Lobbyists Alejandra Castañeda and Rob Toftness (14:10) The video game Loser Lane is impossibly dangerous,

00:55:12

Bike Talk - Winter Fat Bikes, Spoke 'n Art, Engineers...

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2024/12/05

Taylor talks with Hugh Fuller and Joe Borfo at Bike Oven’s iconic Highland Park “Spoke ’n Art Ride.” 0:20 Why fat bikes are "the quiver killer," a pitch from Physical Education teacher and mountain bike club coach Salem Derby. 4:03 News: “Loser Lane,” a fatalistic web based game about riding without a protected lane in Toronto. With Bill 212, Toronto Premier Doug Ford seeks immunity for injuries and fatalities resulting from removing Toronto bike lanes. The Ontario Society of Professional

00:59:59

Bike Talk - Cranksgiving

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2024/11/26

News: San Francisco's controversial center-running bike lane to be replaced by curb protected lanes. Luke Bornheimer, SF advocate for the curb protected lanes, explains. 4:09 NYC gets congestion pricing, finally. It's $9 instead of $15, but will increase. Dave Colon, StreetsblogNYC reporter, fills in the details. 9:01 As Ontario Premier Doug Ford pushes to remove Toronto's bike lanes, University of Toronto students Zev Godfrey and Eva Stanger-Ross Fight for Bikes. 18:28 Writer Nathan Deuel on

00:57:59

Bike Talk - Us Versus Them

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2024/11/20

Voices from World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims in Los Angeles. 1:48 Transportation under Trump according to Yonah Freemark, principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. 8:25 Los Angeles Bike Fest with BikeLA Director Eli Kaufman. 13:37 Strong Towns Northampton checks its tone over a bike lane closure. With Danielle McKhan, Jennifer Nery, and Alex Bowman. 19:10 Fighting for bikes means fighting back against the

00:57:59

Bike Talk - Kids and Bikes

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2024/11/13

Bike News: Cop29 cop-outs, solace in U.S. local elections for biking, China's huge bikeshare rides, and in Oregon, a cyclist was charged for a ride to the hospital by the ambulance that hit him. 2:19 The Northampton Cycle-Smart Cyclocross race broke from the Union Cycliste Internationale for its exclusion of trans women riders in 2023, but the race goes on; the 33rd annual Northampton, Massachusetts Cyclocross race was November 8-10. Miles Abrams, 11, came in 4th in his category. He and his mom,

00:57:59

Bike Talk - Autocrats against bikes, bike lanes and...

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2024/11/08

In the election bummer, some local winners for safe streets: new Congressmember Laura Friedman, Alameda Supervisor John Bauters, and West Hollywood Mayor John Erickson. Listener Kevin Grishkot asks whether, if cars were no longer available, we would require people to license their bicycles. Bike Talk’s lawyer, Jim Pocrass, explains why it’s not a very good idea. 3:18 News: Ontario Premier threatens Toronto’s popular and data proven bike lanes. Paris closes 2 miles of its city center to through

00:59:51

Bike Talk - Bikes and Politics in Glendale, West...

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2024/11/01

News from the front lanes:LA's Traffic Nightmare, a NHTSA requirement for DUI detectors in cars, a measure to keep San Francisco’s Great Highway car free, and the 125th anniversary of the first car killing. A Glendale candidate for Congress demonizes his Democratic opponent, Laura Friedman, as "The Bike Lane Lady." Alex Belekian says if we want bike lanes we should build new cities for them. 4:15 Ann Arbor's Mayor, Christopher Taylor, is as bike friendly as his city. 18:36 NYC's "City of Yes"

00:57:59

Bike Talk - The Power Broker, Intelligent Speed...

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2024/10/25

Taylor finally finishes the epic tome on highway tycoon Robert Moses, The Power Broker, by Robert Caro, and talks to author/transportation activist Charles Komanoff about it. 1:14 A bill to require cars in California to alert drivers when they exceed speed limits by more than 10 mph was vetoed by the Governor. Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk SF, one of the bill's sponsors, speaks about the disappointment. 33:11 Taylor talks gravel with Zachary Rynew, Gravel Bike

00:57:59

Bike Talk - The Bike Lane Lady, Ebikes and Ebikelash,...

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2024/10/18

A Glendale Congressional candidate makes bike lane support his big grievance against Chair of the California Assembly Transportation Committee Laura Friedman in her run for Congress.1:15 The categories of ebike and why they matter, explained by our sponsor Jim Pocrass. 7:10 Ebikelash in NYC is taking off due to the prevalence of food delivery workers who ride fast. Bills would require all e-bike riders to have license and registration and ban ebikes in parks. Transportation Alternatives

00:58:00

Bike Talk - Week Without Driving, WeHo Bike Mayor,...

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2024/10/11

Week Without Driving was September 30th – October 6th, 2024. Here’s a view of how it went by its creator Anna Zivarts, Author of “When Driving is Not an Option” and Director of Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington, and Ruth Rosas, Program Manager at America Walks.2:02 US businesses ranked by their Bicycle Friendliness, from The League of American Bicyclists. With Amelia Neptune. 11:08 West Hollywood’s Bike Mayor, John Erickson, on making his city bike

00:59:44

Bike Talk - Better Cities Films, Greenway Takeaway,...

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2024/10/04

The Better Cities Film Festival is all about bikes and dads, Director Josh Paget says. Also Transportation, Housing, Urban design, Environment, Community, and Technology.5:12 It took a long time and a lot of community meetings to get the Dickens bike/ped greenway in Chicago, but a few NIMBYs were able to get it taken out without much process. We have Streetsblog Chicago Editor John Greenfield, Bike Grid Now organizer Rony Islam, and bike mom/activist Molly Lamping Fleck. 22:55 Elly Blue and

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