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Anyone should be able to ride a bike to any destination. But they can't. Why not? Join us as we try to solve this puzzle and make bike transportation possible for everyone.Bike Networks Now! is a production of Bike Streets.
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Dave Snyder: Where the Bike Movement Gets it Wrong (opens the original)
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Dave Snyder is a battle-tested bike advocate and social entrepreneur. He revived and led the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for 11 years. He founded Transportation for a Livable City and the SF Transit Riders Union. He led the California Bike Coalition (CalBike) for a decade. And then he was the Senior Director for Infrastructure at PeopleForBikes. Despite decades as the consummate insider — indeed, informed by those decades of experience — he has some surprising views that challenge bike advoc
Tony Cherolis & Leslie Schulte: Tactical Urbanism in Indianapolis (opens the original)
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Why isn’t tactical urbanism more common? On the grandest scale, it was good enough for New York City in the redesign of Times Square. Why aren’t we using this to figure out how to make streets better all the time? Indianapolis hasn’t quite done that, but they are one of the few cities with has a formal Tactical Urbanism program.
John Simmerman: Streets Are for People (opens the original)
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Our guest is John Simmerman, founder of Active Towns. John travels around the world trying to understand what’s working well in active transportation systems and what’s not. He chronicles his adventures on the excellent Active Towns podcast and his prolific Active Towns YouTube channel. 00:00 — The Idea of “Activity Assets” 05:14 — Streets for People and Human Flourishing 09:54 — How We Gave the Streets to Cars 12:26 — Lessons From Around the World 15:30 — What Paris Can Teach Us About Livable S
Joel Goodhart: Lessons from Blacksburg (opens the original)
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In this conversation, we’re headed to Blacksburg, Virginia, the home of Virginia Tech. In previous episodes, we’ve investigated the state of biking in big metropolitan areas – Denver, New Orleans, Houston, Portland. Blacksburg, by contrast, is a college town with a population of 45,000. When school is in session, the population almost doubles. So what’s it like trying to get around this college town on a bike?
Eva Frazier: Lessons from Portland (opens the original)
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On this episode, we’re headed to Portland, which is to many people the Xanadu of American bike cities. If I only had a quarter for every time someone, talking about biking, has wistfully started a sentence with, “In Portland…” What is the reality on the ground in Portland? It’s ranked 8th for cities its size in the PeopleForBikes City Ratings. Is its reputation deserved? And why have recent times seen decreases in ridership?
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