Roads Were Not Built for Cars : How Cyclists Were The First To Push For Good Roads & Became The Pioneers Of Motoring / by Carlton Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Carlton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Human Geography.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIII, 331 p. 2 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

When Two Tribes Were One

Pioneers

Mastodons to Motorways

Who Owns the Roads?

Speed

Width

Hardtop History

“What the Bicyclist Did for Roads”

Ripley: “the Mecca of all Good Cyclists

”Good Roads for America

America’s Forgotten Transport Network

Pedal Power

Motoring’s Bicycling Beginnings

Without Bicycles Motoring Might Not Exist

From King of the Road to Cycle Chic.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781610916899

1610916891

9781610916882

1610916883

OCLC:

906025798