The audacious new plan to devote 25% of LA and NYC streets to people by 2025 is explained by Safe Streets For All founder Michael Schneider to Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman.

+ Galen Mook, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Executive Director and host of Boston's Bike Talk, shares his #bikejoy and #bikestruggle.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Lindsay Sturman unveils her theory about why NYC and Portland have plateaued at under 10% mode share for bikes despite the continuing addition of protected lanes, and Alex Devries, Ottowa cyclist, tells of the time he and his friends made an open street by parking one bike at each metered spot.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of CicLAvia, the Los Angeles open streets event, talks with Don, Lindsay, and Nick about bike strategy.

https://www.ciclavia.org/

Charlie Thomas, Texas bike lawyer, talks about the windshield bias of Texas police, in light of an incident where a teen "Coal-rolled" a group of cyclists, then crashed into them, but was not charged or ticketed.

https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/10/waller-bike-crash/

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Dave Snyder, California Bicycle Coalition Executive Director, talks to Lindsay Sturman about Gavin Newsom's surprising veto of two Calbike sponsored bills-- A.B. 122, the Bicycle Safety Stop, and A.B. 1238, the Pedestrian Access Bill-- and Assemblymember Laura Friedman's AB 1147, which would have created 15 minute neighborhoods and bicycle highways.

Michael Schneider, Streets For All Founder, talks to Don Ward about plans to get bike infrastructure included in all new LA street design.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Andrea Learned talks with Mayor Helps of Victoria, B.C. about building political will and bike infrastructure, "complete streets plus," and how Victoria's City Council "just built it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgbes0MMlM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4v11XsAucg&t=57s

Laura Friedman talks with Lindsay Sturman about her Traffic Safety bill, AB43, her point of view on safe streets, and everything.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

After a California Bicycle Coalition report from Calbike Development Director Jenn Guitart, Wolfpack Hustle organizer/Bike Talk cohost Don Ward tells the story of the time he arranged a race between a cyclist and a Jet Blue plane, which the cyclist won.

Then, Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition Policy & Planning Director, talks with cohost Lindsay Sturman about the bills on Governor Gavin Newsom's desk:

AB 43: Allow lower speed limits

AB 122: Bikers treat stop signs as yields

AB 773: Making slow streets permanent

AB 1238: Repealing jaywalking laws

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bicycle and Transit researcher Niels Van Oort is here interviewed by Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman on an overview of research into combined bicycle and transit mode:

https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/overview-bicycletransit-research/

http://smartptlab.tudelft.nl/our-group/niels-van-oort

Edited by Kevin Burton.

California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects.

With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman.

Edited by Kevin Burton.

Bike Talk cohost Andrea Learned interviews Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS.org, on how the bicycle transform cities, and cities transform the world.

With emphasis on the BYCS.org "Bicycle Mayors" program in the U.S. and what these amazing volunteer leaders are doing to forward this call.