Building Bikeable Cities with Dr. Natalia Barbour

In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Natalia Barbour to discuss building and redesigning cities to be bikeable, walkable, and skateable. Dr. Barbour specializes in transportation and travel technologies and we talk about methods for restructuring and the positive effects of transitioning to bikeable and walkable cities. She explains why cities have evolved to be so dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians and some of the obstacles for greener cities such as lobbying by the fossil fuel and automotive industries. We point out some of the cities and countries that are currently well designed for bikeabilty and how the culture shift toward cycling in the United States will help create positive design changes in American cities.