Portland Transport

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Alon talks with Hami Ramani, a Portland activist, about the situation in his birth country of Iran and conditions on the streets in Portland, including the recent death of Sarah Pliner. Hami is active with both the Bike Loud and Street Trust advocacy groups.

In the second half Neda talks with gravel pioneer Chris Skogen, founder of the Almanzo 100 event.

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Nedra talks to Ruthy Woodring of Pedal People, a worker-owned human-powered delivery and hauling service for the Northampton, Massachusetts area.

In the second half Alon speaks with Roger Noehren, founder of Citybikes and Sara Stout, a long-time former worker at the worker-owned shop. Some current Citybikes members want to sell the buildings and close the store.

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Alon talks with Colin Stein, former director of the BC Cycling Coalition and author of the recently published “Vanbikes A history of cycling advocacy“.

In the second half Nedra speaks to Navdeep Chhina of HUB Cycling a not-for-profit organization that has spent over 20 years removing barriers to cycling in Metro Vancouver.

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In the first half Alon interviews former Olympic Cyclist Leszek Sibilsky, who helped originate World Cycle Day at UN.

Later Alon talks with Meera Velankar, the first Indian woman to cycle the Golden Quadrilateral (a 5,846 kilometer network connecting India’s major cities).

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Guests are William Hsu, one of the event’s coordinators and member of the city of Portland’s Bicycle Advisory Committee and Ashley Hollingshead of The Working Theatre Collective, producers of Bike Play, an annual Pedalpalooza event.    

For more information about Pedalpalooza https://www.pedalpalooza.org or https://www.shift2bikes.org