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California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is under new management. Deputy Director Jeannie Ward Waller, former CalBike  Policy Director, talks with her former boss, Calbike Executive Director Dave Snyder, about including biking and walking safety features in all their projects. With Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry and Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Edited by Kevin Burton.

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Ciclavia's back, in Wilmington. Tafarai Bayne, Chief Strategist of Ciclavia, on masks, the history of Wilmington, and the importance of building a park for a day. www.ciclavia.org/wilmington21

California AB 122, the Safety Stop Bill, and AB 1238, the Freedom to Walk Act, on the CalBike Minute with Jared Sanchez, Senior Policy Advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition.

www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/www.calbike.org/freedom-to-walk-campaign/

The federal infrastructure bill is mixed, but better than nothing, says Caron Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of the League of American Bicyclists.

https://www.bikeleague.org/content/bikes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill

Julie Huntington and Sherin Bennett, who bike in NYC and LA, respectively, on yelling in the door zone.

twitter.com/sybbys/status/1425240152981467136?s=20

Hosted by Don Ward and Nick Richert

Edited by Kevin Burton

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Melanie Curry, Streetsblog California Editor, and Dave Snyder, CalBike Executive director, discuss the state and federal programs to subsidize e-bike purchases with Nick Richert and Don Ward.

Essential Question: should I wait for a subsidy to by an ebike? Answer: Only if you want to wait two years.

California's AB 117, authored by Tasha Boerner Horvath, which would create e-bike stimulus payments, originated with a CalBike initiative. CalBike organized stakeholders in support of the bill.

We also talk briefly about SB 400, which CalBike got passed in 2019 and is just now beginning to roll out incentives for low income and disadvantaged communities in the Bay Area, with other areas to come. SB400 will give qualifying individuals $7500 to turn in an older polluting car and replace it with an ebike (or two) under the Clean Cars for All program, which is funded by cap-and-trade.

Also: in 2017, Congress eliminated a tax credit for bike commuters that had allowed employers to reimburse workers as much as $20 per month, pre-tax, for bike commuting expenses. The Bicycle Commuter Act of 2021 (H.R. 384) would reinstate the credit, and make it a pre-tax benefit — like parking and transit. It would be as much as 30% of the parking benefit ($81 a month, less than $1,000 a year), and could be used along with the transit and parking benefits. Bike-share would be eligible for the benefit.

The Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment (E-BIKE) Act from Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) would offer a 30% tax credit of up to $1,500 for buying an electric bicycle priced below $8,000.

With Nick Richert and Don Ward

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The 7am crew was #throwingdown this morning and setting some blazing times for the rest of you to come beat @revolt.fitness What's on tap? 4 #rounds 40 #airsquats 30 #abmatsitups 15/10 #calbike Top time so far goes to @2ducksnabucket at 11:44! Who is ready to take that down?!?!?!? #revoltfast #revoltstrong #revoltfitness #revoltfit #revolt #fitness #fit #fitfam #gulfcoastfitness #crossfit #crossfitrfdt #pensacola #florida #squats (at Revolt Fitness)

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A Really Big Show. Mostly road diets.

LADOT Campaign Director for Vision Zero Nat Gale talks with Severin Martinez and Dennis Hindman about the challenge of designing safer streets in accordance with the LA's Vision Zero policy.  The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council hears some impassioned public comment over Council District 1 Councilmember Cedillo’s blocking of street improvements. Dave Snyder, Executive Director of Calbike, on the California Bicycle Summit. Dennis Hindman on NYC's DOT report, "Cycling in the City." Severin Martinez shares findings on road diets in LA from his UCLA Capstone Project in Transportation Policy and Planning, "Who Wins When Streets Lose Lanes, An Analysis of Safety on Road Diet Corridors in Los Angeles" (everybody wins). 

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