4th April 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 271: White House Recognizes Induced Demand Exists Meaning There's Now a Bicycle-Shaped Overton Window That Needs Jamming Open

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Meredith Glaser and Kevin Krizek

TOPICS: Discussing President Biden's American Jobs Plan and how Pete Buttigieg is shaping up to be the most people-friendly Transport Secretary since John Nolpe of the early 1970s. (Like, Buttigieg, Nolpe also cycled to the office.)

LINKS:

Kevin J. Krizek is Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder. https://twitter.com/KevinJKrizek Boulder, Colorado

Meredith Glaser is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, and one of the principals of the University's Urban Cycling Institute. https://urbancyclinginstitute.com https://twitter.com/dutch_ish

$2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Most Radical Transport Shift Since 1950s, Says President Biden

Design For Human Beings Not Cars, New U.S. Transport Secretary Says

Can street-focused emergency response measures trigger a transition to new transport systems? Exploring evidence and lessons from 55 US cities

21st March 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 270: Streets for kids

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Alison Stenning and Sally Watson

TOPICS: Play streets, cycling and the pop-up protected cycleway on the NE England coast, the Sunrise Cycleway

LINKS:

https://twitter.com/salawatson

https://twitter.com/newcycling

https://twitter.com/playmeetstreet

https://twitter.com/sunrisecycleway

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

20th March 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 269: Canaries in the Coal Mine: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Tim Gill

TOPICS: For too long, we have neglected children's independent mobility. Author and play expert Tim Gill expounds on the theory that children are the canaries in the coal mine — if cities don't work for children, they don't work for anybody.

LINKS:

https://twitter.com/timrgill

https://ribabooks.com/Urban-Playground-How-Child-Friendly-Planning-and-Design-Can-Save-Cities_9781859469293#

https://rethinkingchildhood.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 268: Bike Freak: Being Gary Fisher

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Gary Fisher

TOPICS: I walk him Gary backyards through his life, starting now and ending in 1950, the year he was born.

LINKS: 

https://twitter.com/gary_fisher

https://www.bluetrainpublishing.com/books-blog/being-gary-fisher

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Sunday 7th February 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 267: Put money on the table and let's get these modes moving

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS:

Francois Bausch, Deputy Minister, Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Luxembourg

Claudia Dobles Camargo, First Lady, Costa Rica

Dagmawit Moges, Minister of Transport, Ethiopia

Jürgen Zattler, Deputy Director General for Multilateral and European Policy, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Femi Oke, broadcaster

TOPICS: Extracts from the closing plenary of the Transforming Transportation conference held last week. This is staged every year for the World Bank by Washington DC's World Resources Institute.

LINKS: 

https://www.transformingtransportation.org

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/transport

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.moderatethepanel.com

https://twitter.com/FemiOke

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Friday 29th January 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 266: Move More With The Miracle Pill Author Peter Walker

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Peter Walker

TOPICS: A one-hour long conversation with Guardian political journalist Peter Walker talking about his new book, "The Miracle Pill."

LINKS: 

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99

https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Miracle-Pill/Peter-Walker/9781471192524

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

Monday 25th January 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 265: Desert Skies, Warm Showers and Church Bells

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Donna Tocci and Sylva Florence

TOPICS: Solo cycle touring. Donna and Carlton chat with Sylva who — among many other bike trips — rode solo from Berkeley, California to St. Augustine, Florida on Adventure Cycling's Southern Tier Route. Carlton was in Newcastle, Donna was in Boston and Sylva was in — as you will hear thanks to some melodious bells — a small town in Italy.

LINKS:

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

www.thesylvalining.com

https://www.instagram.com/sylvana.firenze/

https://blogs.memphis.edu/dirtysouth/2013/10/18/dirty-south/

https://eu.dahon.com/bikes/tournado/

https://tourdesstations.ch/en/

https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/southern-tier/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everesting

https://www.dana-farber.org/how-you-can-help/events/participate-in-a-fundraising-event/dana-farber-marathon-challenge/

https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/kickstarter/

Saturday 16th December 2021

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 264: Bike Nerds Kyle and Sara of People for Bikes

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Kyle Wagenschutz and Sarah Studdard of People for Bikes

TOPICS: Bike lanes, mobility motivations, and Mayor Pete's high-profile potential impact on transportation.

Wednesday 30th December 2020

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 263: Loading close pass videos to the cloud with a smart bike dashcam that looks like a cute Pixar character

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUESTS: Crispian Poon and Liz Yu of Pelation, maker of the Rebo smart bike light and dash cam.

TOPICS: Pelation is a UK-government backed start-up that is to soon produce for real the Rebo smart bike light and dashcam video combo — it looks like a Pixar character and has been trialled successfully by a courier company Pedal and Post of Oxford. I

LINKS:

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen

https://www.pelation.co.uk/rebo

#GivingTuesday 1st December 2020

The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast

EPISODE 262: Baron Bird: “Bikes are the future”

SPONSOR: Jenson USA

HOST: Carlton Reid

GUEST: Big Issue publisher Baron Bird of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

TOPICS:

Lord Bird has had a fascinating life so far — a life enriched by art and what he calls social kindness — and he's clearly not ready to put his feet up under his ermine robes just yet.

The Big Issue is still sold by those living in poverty but, because of Covid, no longer from the street. Lord Bird discusses the various other ways you can now help out Big Issue vendors but first we talk about Giving Tuesday and Taking It Away Wednesday, with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea set to dismantle the well-used cycleway on Kensington High Street. Lord Bird slammed this decision saying "bikes are the future."

LINKS:

https://twitter.com/johnbirdswords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bird,_Baron_Bird

https://www.bigissue.com

https://www.the-spokesmen.com

https://www.jensonusa.com/thespokesmen