Bike Talk - Ebike Police State in NYC; The Road Widening Fallacy, Kids on Bikes Protest in Amsterdam

An email from avid listener Rick Bosacker, who gets the joke about "avid cyclists." He's on a 13 month world tour with his family, who are differently avid. Taylor gets route help from Canadian cyclists Dan and Lynette Markham in bike-unfriendly Laguna Beach, California (2:12) Bike Friendly States' ranking highlights by the League of American Bicyclists' Policy Director Ken Macleod (5:19) Intro 606 bill would require the licensing of ebikes in NYC, and make every person on a bike a target- especially those who are already targeted. "There Are No Accidents" author Jessie Singer unspools a thread (8:58) Even the Netherlands could do better for children's active transportation, which is why kids had to protest for park space in Amsterdam, say Dr. Meredith Glaser and Michela Grasso of the Urban Cycling Institute (23:38) Widening roads doesn't decrease gridlock. Why don't engineers know this? Steffen Berr, the Haarlem traffic engineer behind Build the Lanes, and Sully Israel, a traffic planner in Los Angeles, build their case (37:05) Stacey's Bike Thought (55:26)