Roads Were Not Built for Cars
How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
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Word Count
82,750 words, Guess
Page Count
331 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveroadswerenotbuil0000reid
- ISBN-139781610916875
- ISBN-101610916875
- OCLC Control Number908450643
- Better World Books9781610916875
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25884341M
Classifications
- LCCTA1145 .R45 2015
Description
In Roads *Were Not Built for Cars*, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal --and largely unrecognized-- role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the "poor man's transport" in the 1920s, some cyclists became ardent motorists and were all too happy to forget their cycling roots. But, Reid explains, many motor pioneers continued cycling, celebrating the shared links between transport modes that are now seen as worlds apart. In this engaging and meticulously researched book, Carlton Reid encourages us all to celebrate those links once again.
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- Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
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