TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Carlton
TI  - Roads were not built for cars: how cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring 
SN  - 9781610916875
AV  - TA1145 .R45 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Washington
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Cyclists
KW  - History
KW  - Roads
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 309) and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; When Two Tribes Were One --; 2; Pioneers --; 3; Mastodons to Motorways --; 4; Who Owns the Roads? --; 5; Speed --; 6; Width --; 7; Hardtop History --; 8; "What the Bicyclist Did for Roads" --; 9; Ripley: "the Mecca of all Good Cyclists" --; 10; Good Roads for America --; 11; America's Forgotten Transport Network --; 12; Pedal Power --; 13; Motoring's Bicycling Beginnings --; 14; Without Bicycles Motoring Might Not Exist --; 15; From King of the Road to Cycle Chic
N2  - "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
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