Get cozy and listen and/or watch the latest chat between BikePortland Editor and Publisher Jonathan Maus (hi, that's me!) and Bike Loud Board Chair and former bike shop owner Eva Frazier.

Here's a taste of this week's banter and helpful links:

• What's up with all the leaves in bike lanes and why the issue is challenging for advocates.
• How'd She Get There? OMSI to Gateway Green: Eva and I discuss the best bike route from Central Eastside to Gateway.
• Cranksgiving is this Sunday! Eva will be there helping organize.
• My impressions of TriMet's new ramp at Hollywood Transit Center — which is not a "bike ramp" because that is "ableist ideology".
• Bike Happy Hour promo - And yes we're meeting next week 11/27 even though it's a "blacked out" holiday week.
• Bike shop news updates and the new "Secret" bike shop on Hawthorne from the inimitable Starmichael Bowman.
• How the Tillamook/Hancock neighborhood greenway works through a plaza in Hollywood
• Our frustration with the new signal on NE Going and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
• What's up with the bumpy pavement on Tillamook and Ankeny greenways?!
• KGW called out drivers parking in bike lanes!

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I already did a story, video and photo gallery from the World Day of Remembrance event that took place in front of Portland City HAll this past Sunday, but there were some things said by incoming city council members and by a Portland Bureau of Transportation staffer that I really wanted to underscore.

This episode includes audio clips from four speakers at that event with my takeaways interspersed in between.

You'll hear from:

• Clay Veka, PBOT Vision Zero Coordinator
• Mitch Green, District 4 Councilor-elect
• Tiffany Koyama Lane, D3 Councilor-elect
• Angelita Morillo, D3 Councilor-elect
• Steve Novick, D3 Councilor-elect

Links:

• World Day of Remembrance event coverage on BikePortland (11/18/24)
• Portlands new city council bodes well for bicycling (BikePortland 11/12/24)

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Notable bike bus leader and co-founder of nonprofit Bike Bus World Sam "Coach" Balto is our guest this episode. He and BikePortland's Jonathan Maus talked all things bike bus, including: Sam's motivation to get into this work, how his background as a camp counselor is such an asset to leading kids on bike rides, barriers faced by some bike bus leaders, how to respond to concerns about equity, the path toward bike bus global domination, and more.

Links:

• Balto's "Red Cup Project" tactical urbanism work in Portland (BikePortland 2019)
• Video and recap of his first-ever bike bus in Portland on Earth Day 2022 (BikePortland)
• Bike Bus World
• Federal grant for bike buses in north Portland (BikePortland, 11/15/24)

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