#2513 State of the Union, Rebuilding a bike-oriented LA, and Bike storage as key
Bike Talk - A podcast by BikeTalk

Listener Email: John Gibilisco on the Sisyphean undertaking of Omaha bike advocacy (1:40). #Teslatakedown (2:45). The MAGAS are cutting all federal funding for bike infrastructure but also reneging on grants to projects like Reconnecting Communities, which would address the harms of highways. With Yonah Freemark, a principal research associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute (4:05). Boston's bike friendly Mayor Wu is ripping out protected bike lanes to appease the right, according to advocates like Boston Cyclists' Union Communications Manager Mandy Wilkins (15:59). LA architect Neal Payton on how to rebuild Los Angeles to be more bike oriented after the fires (23:17). Bike storage is essential to more biking in cities, and Shabazz Stuart, co-founder and CEO of Oonee bike parking, wants to scale it up (40:28).