Bike Sense
Bike Sense: the podcast of The BC Cycling Coalition.
Join Host Peter Ladner as he interviews guests to talk about all things related to cycling advocacy, education, and road safety in BC. Listen to stories that can influence changes that make active transportation and mobility safer, more equitable, and more accessible, so we can meet our climate, health, social justice, tourism and economic development goals.
Please visit our website at bccycling.ca to find out more about what the BC Cycling Coalition is doing and how you can join and support us.
Bike Sense
Latest Episodes
How Victoria’s Regional Trails Are Adapting To E-Bikes And Crowded Paths
This episode is an appetizer for the array of Active Transportation superstars who will be showing, telling, and inspiring us at the BC Active Transportation Summit in Victoria, Oct 28-30th.**********The Galloping ...
Busting Myths and Crunching Numbers: What Really Adds up to Safe Cycling?
This is an encore presentation of one of our most popular Bike Sense episodes, which originally aired in December, 2023.Is helmet-wearing the key to safe cycling ? Maybe NOT! Kay Teschke, retired UBC Prof in Occupat...
Can BC Become the Next New Zealand for Cycle Tourism?
BC has iconic riding, famous rail trails, and a growing bikepacking scene, so why does planning a multi-day cycling trip still feel like piecing together a puzzle? We sit down with Heather Piwowar, volunteer founding director of the brand-ne...
Women Changing Cities: A Conversation with Melissa Bruntlett
Melissa Bruntlett is a Canadian-born cycling advocate, author, and communications consultant based in Delft, the Netherlands, and co-author of Building the Cycling City, Curbing Traffic, and her latest book, Women Changing...
Dutch-Inspired, Bike-Friendly Street Design for British Columbia
BC keeps getting compared to the Netherlands, usually with a shrug: we've got hills, we've got rain, we are not Amsterdam. But scratch the surface and the similarities outweigh the differences — and the lessons are more transferable th...