The Mechanics of Transportation
How can I get drivers to slow down in my neighborhood? What’s Vision Zero all about? Why does it take so long to get a sidewalk/bike lane or a reduced speed limit approved? Welcome to the Mechanics of Transportation – a podcast that will answer these questions as well as introduce you to people who you may want to share a bike ride, bus ride or walk with.
Transportation
Episodes
41 episodes
RVA Bike Scene-Ep 3 - The Aftermath
Coming up on this episode Sean and talk about how he fared or rather survived last week’s Cyclocross race called Sorry Honey I’ve Gotta Work Late (Forest Hill Park) as well as the 10-year anniversary of the UCI worlds and an amazing wheelie ...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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46:50
RVA Bike Scene - Episode 2. HenBIKEo Recap & what's next
Sean Yeager and myself love all things bike–from pro road races, to mountain biking to cyclocross. We love to see kids on bikes, infrastructure built to help more people bike and laws focused on bike (and pedestrian) safety. However, Sean is...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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33:29
Unnamed RVA Bike Scene Podcast
Sean Yeager and myself love all things bike–from pro road races, to mountain biking to cyclocross. We love to see kids on bikes, infrastructure built to help more people bike and laws focused on bike (and pedestrian) safety. However, Sean is mo...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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24:23
Near Misses - Part 2 - How NOVA Does It.
In this episode, part two of near miss dashboards, I speak with Family for Safe Streets Northern Virginia Executive Director Mike Doyle about their really extensive mapping and data co...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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26:10
Who do you report a "near miss" to?
In this episode I speak with PlanRVA’s mapping expert Elizabeth Greenwell, who I met at a community meeting about, well maps–specifically how bicyclists and pedestrians can post near misses–you know, when a car almost sideswipes you or the side...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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23:40
Richmond Celebrates UCI Road World Championships
Coming up on this special episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships that were held in Richmond, Virginia. The race became such a success that if you use Zwift f...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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44:40
Mental Health Ride
In this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, you get to take a ride with me on a mental health ride. Like many of us, getting exercise not only helps us stay fit and healthy, but it helps us maintain our mental health....
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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17:46
Mechanical Reverse
In this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we go in reverse to two episodes from this past year dealing with transportation infrastructure, namely tactical urbanism and inclusive transportation, as in what do these mean.I...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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23:14
Tour de France - for NEWBIES!
In this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, I chat with Katy Madgwick. She’s a freelance writer and broadcaster, covering multiple disciplines across both men's and women's pro cycling. She’s also the head of Creators at Dom...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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34:38
Visions of Zero
In this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we dive into a new data collection tool that connects Vision Zero with public health and hopes to give updates on the progress of Richmond's Vision Zero program. It's a tool that was being use...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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26:00
A Chat with the League of American Bicyclists
On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we dive into part two of the price we pay for unsafe streets by talking with Ken McCleod, Policy Director of the League of American Bicyclists. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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27:16
Take it to the Bridge
I'm sharing an episode from my other podcast, History Reinvented, here because 1), it's about a bridge--an historic bridge in Richmond, Virginia that is about to go through a major rebuild. And 2), it's the last episode of that series an...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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20:08
The Price We Pay for Unsafe Streets
On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, I’m tackling the latest uptick of bicycle riders dying while out on the roads. It’ll be a two part series in which I talk with a Richmond, Virginia advocate from BikeWalkRVA who has expired...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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31:16
What's Inclusive Transportation?
On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, I’m re-airing my conversation with self-described transportation nerd Veronica O. Davis. She uses her knowledge to spark progressive ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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27:00
What's Tactical Urbanism?
On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we talk with Dironna Moore Clarke, from the City of Richmond’s Office of Equitable Transit and Mobility, which is part of the Department of Public Works. She heads up projects that are dubb...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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24:50
Zero Fare Up in the Air
On this episode of the Mechanics of Transportation, we listen to this informal meeting that featured staff from RVA Rapid Transit, the Greater Richmond Transit Company, (GRTC...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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21:03
Here Come the Dutch!
You can probably tell I’m a bike rider–a lover of the beauty of riding my bike anywhere I can. I’m such a nerd that I just created a YouTube channel showing my bike rides in suburbia (called
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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30:50
All Bodies on Bikes means...
I first came across gravel rider Marley Blonksy via one of her many posts on Instagram in which she was slugging it out on a gravel race–not sure which one–but it doesn’t matter.What does matter is that her positive spirit of e...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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39:00
The Golden Trail
A million trail users per year —that’s the number of visitors the Capital Trail in Virginia gets. It’s a paved, multi-use trail that runs just over 50 miles from the Richmond Capital to historic Jamestown. Along the way, you see beautiful fa...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:52
No gears. No suspension. Strictly BMX
For this story, I met up with Chad Powers of Powers BMX in Richmond, Virginia. Not only does he have a BMX bike shop, but he is one of only a handful of people who run a BMX bike museum. He’s got over 300 bikes in his collection, plus jersey...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:33
Kids on Bikes!
On this first episode of season 2 I talk with Richmond bike advocate, bike race organizer, cyclocross enthusiast and all around bike nerd Sean Yeager. I first met Sean when I was covering a local crit circuit race in Bryan...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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39:12
Year in Review pt 2 - Bikes & Trails!
For part two of the Mechanics of Transportation Year in Review, I’ve collected a few great bits from my past interviews around bikes and trails. In these chunks, we’ll hear from two members of Black Girls Do Bike club in the Richmond, Va reg...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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26:56
Year in Review pt 1 - buses & infrastructure
It’s a been a banner first season on the Mechanics of Transportation, from being a sparkle of an idea to keep my foot in the transportation world after getting let go from a job at a public radio station as a transportation reporter, to prod...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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17:38
