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Guests: Carter Strickland; Kyle Wagenschutz
Their motto is “public land for public good”… and today, we speak with the NY State Director for the Trust for Public Land, Carter Strickland.
TPL was founded in 1972 on the conviction that all people need and deserve 
access to nature and the outdoors, close to home, in the cities and communities where they live, as a matter of health, equity, and justice.
From transforming schoolyards into parks to working with communities and organizations to procure land and rights-of-ways for creation and expansion of trails and greenways, TPL works its magic across the entire country.
Kyle Wagenschutz, the VP of Local Innovation for People For Bikes, talks about this year’s most bikeable cities. The 2021 City Ratings came out recently and of course, I rushed to see if any Ohio cities made the list. (listen in to find out!)
When People For Bikes starts working on their “most bikeable cities” ratings 
list each year, and the work begins on the next year as soon as the current year’s results are published, the criteria come from a lot more places than one would imagine.
It’s at the ground level – towns and cities and even villages – where PFB’s looks to gather data that shows how easily one can get around by bike… and, that data is crunched up and spit out to produce not only a list of great places to ride, but some comparative ideas to adopt or adapt to make every city more bike friendly.
PS – Here is the story about Harrison Ford riding 40 miles per day getting ready for Indiana Jones 5.
researcher, John Surico.
In February of 2020, we spoke with 
We talk about advocacy, safety, trails, and planning a lot; and today, we wrap much of that into a conversation with 
his passion for the work started in college and has never waned. Today, Dave as the ED of the California Bike Coalition his commitment to safer streets and more people riding is still his focus and he’ s killing it with both ideas and action.
This week, 
decades. If you receive the 
and his organization, USA Cycling are trying to take on the topic in a way I haven’t yet seen and, I believe it has some merit.
what USA Cycling is suggesting.
World Team
My second guest is 
Today, we bring it down to a personal level with 
much better at reducing his own footprint on the planet, but he could see so many ways that all of us could become proactive as opposed to reactive with a deep sense of generosity.
Javier Sanchez
you come together with friends and colleagues for a philanthropic fundraiser, or maybe you’d like to ride with some of your favorite Miami Dolphin’s players, perhaps you’ll head down to Florida next winter for the 12th annual
Lastly, we check in with 
section of the Greenway from 
First up, is a story that went viral via TikTok this week when some teenagers in Perth Amboy, NJ were stopped by the police, had their bikes temporarily confiscated, and one of the teens was arrested.
the work he has done and is doing with 
Our conversation today traces the expansion of bicycle infrastructure and bicycling itself in Bogota, Colombia as well as offers some insight into the kinds of ideas that Carlos, in his role with NUMO especially, is putting into practice to expand the use of bicycles – especially eBikes.
And, there’s has been a lot of talk about carbon pricing and frankly, I didn’t really understand it. It’s not a new idea and in fact, what we are going to discuss with Randy Salim and Rich Fein from the
scenes as the guy behind the guy behind the guy, as he puts it, Kendall matches his clients with product managers to spec bicycles.