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Roads Were Not Built for Cars
Carlton Reid
其他書名
How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
出版Island Press, 2015-04-09
主題Architecture / GeneralArchitecture / Urban & Land Use PlanningBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / TransportationHistory / Social HistoryPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentPolitical Science / Public Policy / Regional PlanningTransportation / GeneralTransportation / Automotive / GeneralTransportation / Automotive / HistoryTRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation
ISBN16109168919781610916899
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6iS8BwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. 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.