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His Turf: John Jones III, East Side Riders President, at CicLAvia Mini.

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Critical Comeback: Vancouver's conservative city council uses dedicated bike funds to remove a protected bike lane. In response, Vancouver's Critical Mass has come back. With Lucy Maloney and Rob Zomber.

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What you don't know: Tire particles emit more pollution than modern tailpipes, a study finds, challenging assumptions about EVs, speed, and traffic. Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics, Dave Campbell, Bicycle Planner with Charlotte, NC, and Dr. Grace Peng, Natural Resources chair for the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyres-produce-more-particle-pollution-than-exhausts-tests-show

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Eat-n-Ride: In bike-friendly Northampton, Massachusetts, advocates celebrated Bike Month with a Bike Breakfast. Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, Bike Breakfast founder James Lowenthal, Massachusetts Bike Coalition Communications Coordinator Jes Slavin, All Bodies on Bikes Western Massachusetts Chapter Leader Jacob Shepherd-Seidl, New England mountain biking champion Salem Mazzawy, Council Vice-President Karen Foster, Northampton Cycling Club President Jonathan Brody.

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D.C. Local: Washington, D.C. man on the street Joel Gwadz interviews Laura as she locks up her bike.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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Intro

Bike Month happenings with Detroit Motown Trailblazers Founder Reo Ramsay, Los Angeles CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, and Berkshire Bike Path Council President Marjorie Cohan. With cohosts Seamus Garrity, Nick Richert, and Taylor Nichols.

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Life or Liberty: AB 645 would install speed cameras in California cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mobility advocates overwhelmingly support the bill, but the California ACLU opposes AB 645, citing privacy and equity concerns. Cohost Seamus Garrity interviews Becca Cramer-Mowder, a Legislative Advocate for the ACLU.

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Planning Prodigy: Hafeez is fighting for safe bike, bus, and complete streets infrastructure in Toronto. With Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher.

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Bikeable dreams: Bike Talk Cohost and Livable Cities Initiative co-Founder Lindsay Sturman on good and bad bike infrastructure, with cohost Taylor Nichols.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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Intro

Bike Month: What's happening May, Bike Month, in Santa Monica, Detroit, and Northampton, Massachusetts; cohosts Taylor Nichols, Lindsay Sturman, and Nick Richert get a rundown with Cynthia Rose, Director of Santa Monica Spoke, Todd Scott, Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition, and Elena Huisman, Board Member of Friends of Northampton Trails.

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Greener Way: a 30 mile long "greenway" brings new life to Detroit communities. Joe Louis Greenway Project Manager Christina Peltier and Detroit cyclist K’Loni Thorpe talk with Taylor.

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Speed Catchers: California AB 645 would put the brakes on drivers in 6 pilot cities, while addressing privacy and equity concerns. Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco would get speed cameras if the bill passes. Seamus Garrity talks with Becca Motola-Barnes of WalkSF. https://walksf.org/get-involved/take-action/ab-675-speed-safety-cameras

Petition "Reign In Reckless Speeding In California:" https://www.change.org/p/reign-in-reckless-speeding-in-california

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Ironic Justice: U.S. diplomat Sarah Debbink Langenkamp returned from her work in Ukraine, a literal war zone, only to be killed in a bike lane by a truck driver making a right turn in Bethesda, Maryland. The Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Active Transportation Act would unlock roadway safety funds for local governments. Taylor talks about the act with Portland Congressmember Earl Blumenauer, who cosponsored the act, and Sarah's husband, Daniel Langenkamp.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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Bike Wars: Seamus Garrity interviews Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streets For All Founder Michael Schneider on Los Angeles's misleading claims about its progress towards Mobility Plan 2035, and the ballot measure that would force the city to implement its plan. https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/13/astonishing-city-planning-department-mobility-plan-status-report-ignores-mobility-plan/

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Driver Lobby: Toronto Star Journalist Matt Elliot counters anti-bike bad faith arguments with guest host Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/04/25/toronto-bike-lanes-are-not-the-problem-misleading-stats-by-the-anti-bike-lobby-are.html

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Thoreau on a Bike: Mark Cramer, author of "If Thoreau Rode A Bicycle," talks to Taylor Nichols.

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A Challenge: Anna Zivarts, Director of the Mobility Disability Initiative, on the #WeekWithoutDriving, with Nick Richert.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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Violence Reaction: A steep spike in Oakland, California car killings after the pandemic and the loss of the city's pandemic-era slow streets spurred the formation of The Traffic Violence Rapid Response Team. Seamus Garrity interviews George Spies and Carter Lavin, volunteers with the Team.

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Lives Above All Else: Columbus, Ohio is on board for safer streets. Taylor Nichols interviews Maria Cantrell, Vision Zero Coordinator for Columbus, Ohio, Emma Kogge, Transportation Planner for the City, and Angie Shmitt, a transportation writer and planner based in Cleveland.

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No Place Like Home: We look to places like the Netherlands for examples of safe biking infrastructure, but Inlander editor Nick Deshais has written an article that places Spokane, Washington among the great biking cities of the world. https://www.inlander.com/culture/the-future-belongs-to-the-bicycle-in-copenhagen-mexico-city-portland-and-spokane-24647156

By Taylor Nichols.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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This is Big: The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT), when finished, will be the longest rail trail in New England at 104 miles from Boston to Northampton, 2/3 of the way across the state. Craig Della Penna, Executive Director with Norwottuck Network, a non-profit corporation that supports the build-out and operation of the Mass Central Rail Trail, here gives Bike Talk a preview of the Norwottuck Network report about what a completed MCRT will mean to the Commonwealth. https://www.nnnetwork.net/

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Nope: Safe street advocates shouldn't support the unsafe Valencia Street center-running bike lane recently approved by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, according to Valencia Street activist Stacey Randecker.

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A Post Car Future: Cars and capitalism discussed by Matthew Rozsa, author of articles about car dependency and inequality at Salon.com, with John Renne, a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, co-author of the study "Socioeconomics of Urban Travel in the U.S." https://www.salon.com/2023/03/19/as-wealth-inequality-spirals-out-of-control-many-americans-can-no-longer-afford-to-drive/ https://www.salon.com/2023/04/09/is-a-post-car-future-actually-possible-experts-say-yes-heres-how-we-could-get-there/

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Car Free Forever: In 2020, the City of Toronto took the bold step of closing High Park to vehicles on weekends. Now, there's a movement to make High Park permanently car free. Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher interviews Faraz Gholizadeh, co-founder of Safe Parkside.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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Wild and Free: A girl tames a big-kid bike in "Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike," by bestselling children's book author and journalist Dashka Slater. Dashka reads the story.

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No Time For Losers: Pittsfield's City Council strikes down a referendum to bring the design of its downtown pilot protected lane to voters on the November ballot. With Ricardo Morales, Pittsfield, Massachusetts' Commissioner of Public Utilities.

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Centering Safety: A new protected bike lane will run down the center of one of San Francisco's most dangerous and important streets, Valencia. San Francisco bike advocate-activists Robin Pam, Aditya Bhumbla, and Zach Lipton chat with Seamus Garrity.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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After 'cat: Galen Mook sums up the Alleycat and interviews Josh from Grand Rapids at the Alleycat afterparty.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Book Soweto: Bicycle Entrepreneur Mpumi Mtintso organizes Tour de Libraries and historical bike tours in the township of Soweto, South Africa.

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Our Streets: A coalition of equity-focused active transportation and mobility justice organizations has formed in Los Angeles to change the way the city designs its streets. Eli Kaufman, Executive Director of BikeLA, Andres Ramirez, Executive Director of People for Mobility Justice, and John Yi, Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks, join Bike Talk cohost Seamus Garrity to talk about their new coalition, Our Streets Action Committee. bit.ly/3Ko1sJT

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Comparative Advocacy: San Diego County and Massachusetts' face different challenges for bike advocacy. Galen Mook, Executive Director of MassBike, and Will Rhatigan, Advocacy Director of the San Diego Bicycle Coalition, compare and contrast.

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Bike Joy: two Brompton users share their joys with Taylor Nichols.

Editing by Kevin Burton.

Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb.

Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward.

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The unedited conversation between Karen Parolek of Walk Bike Berkeley, Lucy Maloney of https://lovethelane.ca/, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Utilities Ricardo Morales, and https://www.slowstreets.us/ founder Luke Bornheimer from this episode: https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/bike-talk-slow-streets-please