Welcome back "Friend of the Show" Tim Mooney! I'm brining you all headlines and mail first because it's impossible to cut anything from the interview-proper and as one file I ended up with 1h40m. So, for the sake of bandwith (yours and mine) I'm giving you 2 for the price of one. More to come! headlines 2 quick announcements -The Bike Peace Music Festival, July 17 & 18, 2015 Thunder Island, Cascade Locks, Oregon -DRT PORTLAND, OCTOBER 17TH, 2015. Portland cyclists are called to test their navigation, problem solving and load-hauling mettle on October 17th, 2015 in a disaster drill designed to showcase the relevance of cargo bikes to disaster relief. In addition to being a challenge for riders, the DRT will serve as an exercise for other aspects of community disaster response such as Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams (NET), local Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), and the newly developed Oregon Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST). from commutebybike.com Vision Zero: the Plan to Eliminate Road Fatalities Written by Stacey Moses Back in 1997, Sweden adopted the concept of Vision Zero. The Swedish approach to road safety is a straightforward and powerful initiative that can be summarized in a single sentence: No loss of life is acceptable. Achieving zero traffic fatalities sounds a bit like the advocate’s version of a beauty pageant contestant’s wish of achieving world peace. However, after digging in to the results in Sweden and in cities in the US that have adopted Vision Zero, it is clear that the initiative is having an impact. Is it working? Compare the percentage of road deaths in Sweden to the percentage of road deaths in the US: 3 out of 100,000 to 12.3 out of 100,000, according to the Center for Active Design. In New York City, Mayor de Blasio has signed legislation that supports NYC’s Vision Zero Initiative, including legislation that lowered the default speed limit in New York City from 30 mph to 25 mph in 2014. Mayor Muriel Bowser has officially stated her commitment to Vision Zero in the District of Columbia, and more than twenty government agencies are engaged in the initiative in DC, including the District Department of Transportation. InSan Francisco, leaders have identified the year 2024 as their deadline for eliminating all road deaths as part of the City by the Bay’s Vision Zero Initiative. from bikeportland.org After 90 years, American cities are again redefining independence Posted by Michael Andersen (News Editor) on July 3rd, 2015 at 1:33 pm Sometime in the 1920s, the American auto industry worked very hard and very consciously to achieve a great victory: they successfully associated their product with freedom. In the years that followed, advocates of “motordom,” as they referred to themselves, pulled off their most famous trick: they used a derogatory American term for a country bumpkin, a “jay,” to coin a new word, “jaywalking.” People using the street casually weren’t exercising freedom, the word implied. They were betraying ignorance and unsophistication. They didn’t belong in U.S. cities; cars did. Have you had the prickling sense, lately, that the United States is in a new moment? That the Vision Zero movement and those like it are reviving some of the sense of outrage about the lost freedom of urban movement that almost no one still alive remembers? But from a gradually spreading grassroots hashtag to a Portland dad worried about his children’s safety to residents mobilizing for a voice on their neighborhood association to one of America’s great cities announcing that despite our country’s choices in the 1920s, we no longer find traffic deaths to be an acceptable price to pay for speeed, the national movement for better streets that’s being built right now is showing signs of a very American attitude. It’s actually the same attitude that advocates of “motordom” had when they gradually wrested control of city streets,
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