Portland Transport

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Alon and Tori speak with Matt Pierce of World Bicycle Relief about their programs that combine philanthropic distributions with social enterprise sales.

In the second half they talk with Daniil Abbruzzese, a Portland youth who with friends created Bikes Period to distribute bicycles in Nicaragua.

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April and Tori talk with Dr. Tyler Folsom about his work on autonomous bicycles and the Elcano Project. They also speak with Ken McLeod from the League of American Cyclists about the legal and safety impacts of autonomous vehicles.

In the second half they interview Ann Hall, author of Muscle on Wheels, the story of women racers of high wheel bicycles in the nineteenth century.

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Alon and Tori talk with Dr. Adonia Lugo about her book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance and the topic of social equity in bicycle advocacy, with a focus on Southern California.

In the second half they talk with photographer Carolin Kewer about her “Los Angeles Bike Rebels” exhibit of photography.

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Alon and April talk with Irish adventurer and activist Dervla Murphy, best known for her book Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle, and Ornithologist Donald Kroosma, author of Listening to a Continent Sing: Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific.