“Every line on the road is a political choice.”

Marco te Brömmelstroet, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. His book Movement, with Thalia Verkade, takes a stance against myths and received wisdoms that surround popular thinking about the rights and place of cyclists and pedestrians, urban design, and traffic engineering. Parallel to the critique, he presents new ways of thinking about how, and why we move through the world, and at what speed.

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Intro/Outro: “My White Bicycle,” by Tomorrow

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Discussed:

-             Urban Cycling Institute

-             Woonerf

-             Chicane

-             Chip Cone

-             Cauliflower neighborhood, a.k.a. Bloemkoolwijk

-             Fighting Traffic, by Peter Norton

-             RoadDanger.org

-             Stafford Beer

-             Rollback of congestion pricing in New York City

-             The bicycle at the bed-in, Amsterdam 1969

-             The Royal Dutch Touring Club, AWNB vs the EWNB

-             School streets, Paris

-             Provo – Dutch nonviolent protest group + The White Bicycle Plan

-             Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

-             Bicycle Highways

-             Anne Hidalgo + Carlos Moreno = 170,000 trees

-             Groningen car ban, 1980

-             Nieuwmarkt riots, Amsterdam, 1975

-             Janette Sadiq-Khan and the Times Square pedestrianization

-             Bike Bus – Sam Balto

-             NYC Municipal Vehicle Active Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) / Speed Geofencing

-             Valerie Plante, Mayor of Montreal, BIXI bikes (non-profitbike-sharing program)

-             Swapfliets (Swap Bike)