Bike Talk - Bike Touring, Motornormativity, and Treating the Public Health Crisis of Oversized SUVs

Cohosts Taylor, Nick, Lindsay and Stacey ponder possible effects of the new administration on bikes, cars, and infrastructure (0:57). Listener Email: Reese Bastion writes about motonormativity, the acceptance of public hazards from cars where similar hazards like smoking wouldn't be tolerated. This sparks a discussion about how the framework that led to smoking in public being banned could apply to oversized SUVs (4:52). Listener bike tours: Rick Bosacker, M.D., of New Zealand calls from a cruise ship toward the end of a family bike tour of the world's great and not-so-great bike cities (18:41). Brett McGraw, from Minneapolis, tours car-centric Los Angeles by bikeshare and transit (27:43). The "Listening Tour" of Andrew Mohama, who biked home to Chicago from San Francisco, listening to people's loneliness along the way (38:03). Bike Thought by Kendra Ramsey, Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition (54:37).