{"id":68881,"date":"2024-06-18T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=68881"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:22:11","slug":"podcast-spacing-radio-078-bike-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2024\/06\/18\/podcast-spacing-radio-078-bike-month\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Spacing Radio 078, Bike Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Bike Month! It&#8217;s a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some significant gains in cycling infrastructure, there are still a lot of people and (more troubling) politicians who&#8217;d like to run riders off the road.<\/p>\n<p>To put this all into perspective, we spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanrickBennett?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Lanrick Bennett Jr.<\/a>, a cycling advocate who, for the last few years, has represented Toronto as the <a href=\"https:\/\/bycs.org\/bicycle-mayor\/\">Bicycle Mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, <em>Spacing<\/em> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shawnmicallef?lang=en\">Shawn Micallef<\/a> tells us about the new edition of his book <a href=\"https:\/\/spacingstore.ca\/products\/stroll-updated-edition\"><em>Stroll: psychogeographic walking tours of Toronto<\/em><\/a>. In 2010, Shawn wrote the book as a series of guided walks, with historic background and personal reflections, through different parts of the city. Now, 14 years later, he&#8217;s retread those steps for a brand new version of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the podcast on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/spacing-radio\/id1124077274\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7j3L15Vo36v6MJGXask9HG\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ix2fkh233gvpmmbgtby7exujgt4\">Google Play<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:233628346\/sounds.rss\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1850952939&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Spacing Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacing Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Episode 78: Bike Month\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\/episode-78-bike-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 78: Bike Month<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Bike Month! It&#8217;s a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some significant gains in cycling infrastructure, there are still a lot of people and (more troubling) politicians who&#8217;d like to run riders off the road. 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