Bike battles : a history of sharing the American road / James Longhurst.

Longhurst, James, author.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Get out of the Road! — The battle over the public roads in america, 1870-1900 — The right sort of people — The battle over taxes, sidepaths, and roads at the turn of the century — The rules of the road — Bicycling in the automotive age, 1900-1930 — Victory bike battles — The debate over emergency transport in World War II — 1950s syndrome — Excluding bikes from suburban streets, interstate highways, and adult lives — Bikes are beautiful — The bike boom, bikeways, and the battle over where to ride in the 1970s — Conclusion — The Road as a commons
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road.

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