Bike Boom Reid Carlton
Bike Boom Reid Carlton Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. Will we ever witness a true "bike boom" in cities? While many global cities…
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Bike Boom Reid Carlton
Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. Will we ever witness a true "bike boom" in cities? While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for its very survival.
Use of bicycles in America and Britain fell off a cliff in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to the rapid rise in car ownership. What can we learn from past successes and failures to make cycling safer, easier, and more accessible? Urban planners and politicians predicted that cycling would wither to nothing, and they did their level best to bring about this extinction by catering to only motorists.
But in the 1970s, something strange happened--bicycling bounced back, first in America and then in Britain.In Bike Boom, journalist Carlton Reid uses history to