Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Guest: Rob Anderson
I’m really excited about this episode because it’s an approach to safety that could truly wake up the public to a concrete reason for watching out for us on the road.
Rob Anderson represents an organization called MTAC (no, not like the NCIS MTAC,)
It stands for More Than A Cyclist and their visual campaigns are seeing some remarkable results.
From social media and local billboards to 
and men’s toilets – yeah, you’ll have to hear what Rob says about this – these visual reminders that cyclists are also doctors, mothers, nurses, engineers, and more are having positive effects on drivers where the campaigns are running.
What’s really so gratifying about this is that, everywhere a campaign has been initiated, it gets positive responses and wide recognition.
We are, after all, more than just cyclists.
If you log on to their website, morethanacyclist.org, you’ll find a plethora of resources to help you learn about the organization, find research that can boost your confidence to approach your community to start a campaign, and learn about the results of campaigns that have already been working.
If you log on to my Substack, you will also hear a short conversation with Professor Amelia Katanski from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Professor Katanski has run two successful MTAC campaigns, and you can learn how she made it happen in her City.
Next time on TOC, we’ll be speaking with Peter Wilborn, the founder and lead counsel of Bike Law. Peter lost his brother to a bike crash in 1998 and has dedicated his life and his work to helping cyclists and their families when the absolute worst happens – a crash resulting in injury or worse.
Our conversation is enlightening as it goes to a hot topic right now – A.I. and how its use could impact your case.
https://healthycities.org.au/programs/more-than-a-cyclist/
https://healthycities.org.au/2024/08/21/more-than-a-cyclist-campaign-2024-2/
Amanda McMahon loves the bicycle – everything about it. She loves riding it, racing it, talking and writing about it, and would be happy to quit her IT day job if she could “do bicycle” all day-every day.
This week’s “safety” episode is focused in Ohio but has broad implications about the laws around bikes on the road.
language that changed the whole AFRAP rule.
Yes, this episode quickly follows on the heels of my conversation with Raul Avelar from the IIHS. But, there are so many great safety conversations getting ready to stack up that I wanted to make sure we get them all in this summer.
faster, drivers are distracted, impatient, and angrier, and speed limits are ignored. So it is no wonder that fewer and fewer riders taking to the roads.
This is the second in our series about safety. And, while it isn’t a long conversation, it’s an important one because it helps to set the context for how safety trends are playing out.
My guest is 
Secretary of Transportation claws back $1.7B from the infrastructure bill that promised the money to hundreds, if not thousands, of projects, claiming that he was going to redirect the funds to roads and bridges, not to and I quote “
I’ve had this conversation archived for way too long and in re-listening while editing it today, I thought – how interesting that we are at this strange place with the announcement last week of so much money being rescinded from bike and ped infrastructure, to the amazing 50year project that completed the
scenery of Colorado coupled with great amenities along the way without climbing the Rockies!
While we will be celebrating our 250th Anniversary here in the States, the Grand Departe of the 
intense heat could impact the race as we well as the teams, and what this year’s course has in store for us.
Today’s conversation falls into the latter category and my guest is Will Chavez, the associate editor of the 
they travel the almost 1000 miles on the 
Seven years ago, 
eleven different cities as Melissa and Chris shine the spotlight on what can only be termed a modern transformation of urban thinking.