Roads Were Not Built for Cars How Cyclists were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring /

• Main Author: Reid, Carlton (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

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...

Table of 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.