Roads Were Not Built for Cars

How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneer s of Motoring

By: Carlton Reid

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Paperback | 8 May 2015 | Edition Number 2

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The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use roads and were the first to push for high-quality leadership for roads. They were also the first promoters of motoring; the first motoring journalists had first been cycling journalists; and there was a transfer of technology from cycling to motoring without which cars as we know them wouldn't exist! 64 car marques, including Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC, had bicycling beginnings. Roads Were Not Built for Cars is a history book, focussing on a time when cyclists had political clout, in Britain and especially in America. The book researches the Roads Improvement Association - a lobbying group created by the Cyclists' Touring Club in 1886 - and the Good Roads movement organised by the League of American Wheelmen in the same period.

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"This fascinating book examines the role of bicycles and cycling enthusiasts in the automobile industry and the US's 'good roads movement' of the late 1800s–early 1900s. Reid has done an outstanding job of blending history, photographs and illustrations, short stories, quotes, facts, and informational pieces into an easy-to-read, thoroughly enjoyable book...This is a must read for anyone interested in planning and highway design as well as bicycle transportation."

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