#2549 Moral Panic On Ebikes

Our Mission Statement, reviews, a listener email, and please take our survey! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVwttiNKX8APpEgM3lmvlUI9d8KqQl9uedQ8YmdiJ5rPf0ow/viewform (0:19) Charlie’s News New bike lanes in Boston increase bike trips and decrease car traffic https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/boston-data-show-streets-with-new-bike-lanes-successfully-shift-traffic-from-cars-to-bikes; Astoria, Queens rips up a partially installed bike lane due to bikelash https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/queens-judge-orders-city-to-nix-half-installed-queens-bike-lane; Iowa City free bus ridership and service is up, emissions down https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html; FSA/HSA pre-tax $ can be put towards a bike- with a doctor’s note https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/04/this-holiday-season-buy-your-kid-a-bike-with-your-pre-tax-healthcare-money(4:57). Montreal plows snow from bike lanes and sidewalks. Why can't every snowy city? We ask Patrick Murphy of Oh The Urbanity https://bsky.app/profile/ohtheurbanity.bsky.social (7:28). A round table on the NY Times Article "The Dangers of Ebikes" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/briefing/the-dangers-of-e-bikes.html with our New Yorker/Marin County panel- Warren Wells, Policy and Advocacy Director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition https://marinbike.org; Carl Mahaney, Director of Streetopia Upper West Side https://www.streetopia.city; Sophia Lebowitz, writer of “The ‘Problem’ With E-Bikes? The Super Fast Illegal Ones,” https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/21/the-problem-with-e-bikes-the-super-fast-illegal-ones and Miser, organizer of the subreddit MicromobilityNYC https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/: (14:50) A bike tour of Japan by Aaron Lipstadt (42:25). Bill Walton's Bike Thought (54:57) Stacey's Bike Thought (55:22) Also, 12/12/25 is the last day people can order Bike Talk books from the Bookshop page at biketalk.org with Standard Shipping to have them arrive on time to put under the tree.