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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2025 · 57 MIN

#2525 We love LA, Deliveristas, Zohran for Bikes NYC, Picture Main Street

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At the virtual Bicycle Film Festival, Taylor sees a woman set a new record of riding a bike at 183 mph (0:22). Nick visits Los Angeles, runs into a Hollywood ride out, and meets bike dancer Denis (4:42). Taylor will use any pretext for a bike errand, reveals his wife Marga (7:05). Money for protected bike lanes in Denver was about to be spent on removing them, until the Mayor's Bike Advisory Council caught on. With Loren Hansen, Chair of the Denver MBAC (8:49). NYC Mayor Eric Adams' war on bikes is sending people who deliver food by bike into the jaws of criminal courts while food delivery app giants support anti-bike candidates. With Executive Director of the Workers' Justice Project, Ligia Guallpa (13:59). Good news in New York: a judge stopped Mayor Adams' attempt to remove the Bedford Ave bike lane, and Zohran, NYC's top Mayoral candidate, is super bike friendly (and just won the primary). Also, bike lane opponents at public meetings don't seem to care about anything (besides parking spaces). With Miser, who runs the subreddit MicromobilityNYC (24:30). A San Francisco Grand Jury Report determines the city's failure to meet Vision Zero goals is due to lack of traffic enforcement (48:09). Bike lane opponents in Northampton, Massachusetts, held a meeting with presenters from nearby Pittsfield, hoping to show how bike lanes that failed there would fail in Northampton, too. Their plan backfired, explains Northampton City Council candidate Benjamin Spencer (49:30).

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