Roads were not built for cars : how cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring / Carlton Reid.
2015
TA1145 .R45 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Roads were not built for cars : how cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring / Carlton Reid.
Author
Reid, Carlton, author.
ISBN
9781610916899 (paperback)
1610916891 (paperback)
9781610916875 (hardcover)
1610916875 (hardcover)
1610916891 (paperback)
9781610916875 (hardcover)
1610916875 (hardcover)
Published
Washington : Island Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
TA1145 .R45 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
388.347209
Summary
"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."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 309) and index.
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