{"id":4475,"date":"2023-07-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yarrabug.org\/radio\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:58:45","slug":"yarrabug-radio-show-757-monday-31st-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yarrabug.org\/radio\/2023\/07\/31\/yarrabug-radio-show-757-monday-31st-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"YarraBUG Radio Show #757 Monday 31st July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The further adventures of bike lane guy. Screenshot: Let’s Ride Melbourne<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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David Margetts & the return of bike lane guy<\/a>: on this weeks program Chris chats to David Margetts<\/a> about changing his career to becoming an actor,\u00a0kicking off with the bike lane guy character<\/a>\u00a0for Let’s Ride Melbourne<\/a>, his observations about\u00a0Melbourne riding conditions, a little bit about the so-called ‘pause’ to Melbourne Council infrastructure program in June 2022<\/a> and overall efforts towards making\u00a0cycling more safer and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local news includes Safer Walking and Riding for Murray Road Community Survey<\/a>, Yarra Council Road Safety Study in Alphington<\/a>, Micromobility Report: Tasmania Leads Australia in E-bike Purchasing Incentives<\/a>, Gipps Street steps are no more<\/a> and new speed limits for Brunswick Street and St Georges Road, Fitzroy North<\/a> after community pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleepy Dreamers: Bike Song<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonobo: Cirrus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

filous: Bicycle feat. klei<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/audio.3cr.org.au\/3cr\/yarrabug\/2023\/07\/31\/1000\/202307311000_yarrabug_64.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Download<\/a> (Duration: 32:08 — 23.5MB) | Embed<\/a><\/p>

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David Margetts & the return of bike lane guy: on this weeks program Chris chats to David Margetts about changing his career to becoming an actor,\u00a0kicking off with the bike lane guy character\u00a0for Let’s Ride Melbourne, his observations about\u00a0Melbourne riding… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-show-summary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ksuk-1ab","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":601,"url":"https:\/\/www.yarrabug.org\/radio\/2010\/06\/07\/yarra-bug-radio-show89-%e2%80%93-monday-june-7th-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":4475,"position":0},"title":"Yarra BUG Radio Show#89 \u2013 Monday June 7th 2010","author":"admin","date":"7 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve & Val interview Heidi Hill from Melbourne's Winter Wonderland ride - riding naked in winter in solidarity with the northern hemisphere Worldwide Naked Bike Rides. 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