Bicycles In American Highway Planning
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Bicycles In American Highway Planning
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Author : Bruce D. Epperson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Bicycles In American Highway Planning written by Bruce D. Epperson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Transportation categories.
The United States differs from other developed nations in the extent to which its national bicycle transportation policy relies on the use of unmodified roadways, with cyclists obeying the same traffic regulations as motor vehicles. This policy--known as "vehicular cycling"--evolved between 1969, when the "10-speed boom" saw a sharp increase in adult bicycling, and 1991, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials adopted an official policy that on-road bikeways were not desirable. This policy resulted from a growing realization by highway engineers and experienced club cyclists that they had parallel interests: the cyclists preferred to ride on highways, because most bikeways were not designed for high speeds and pack riding; and the highway engineers did not want to divert funding from roadways to construct bikeways. Using contemporary magazine articles, government reports, and archival material from industry lobbying groups and national cycling organizations, this book tells the story of how America became a nation of bicyclists without bikeways.
Bicycles In American Highway Planning
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Author : Bruce D. Epperson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Bicycles In American Highway Planning written by Bruce D. Epperson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Transportation categories.
The United States differs from other developed nations in the extent to which its national bicycle transportation policy relies on the use of unmodified roadways, with cyclists obeying the same traffic regulations as motor vehicles. This policy—known as “vehicular cycling”—evolved between 1969, when the “10-speed boom” saw a sharp increase in adult bicycling, and 1991, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials adopted an official policy that on-road bikeways were not desirable. This policy resulted from a growing realization by highway engineers and experienced club cyclists that they had parallel interests: the cyclists preferred to ride on highways, because most bikeways were not designed for high speeds and pack riding; and the highway engineers did not want to divert funding from roadways to construct bikeways. Using contemporary magazine articles, government reports, and archival material from industry lobbying groups and national cycling organizations, this book tells the story of how America became a nation of bicyclists without bikeways.
The Impact Of Bicycling On Scenic Highways
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Impact Of Bicycling On Scenic Highways written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Automobile travel categories.
Bicycle Transit
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Author : Bruce L. Balshone
language : en
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Release Date : 1975
Bicycle Transit written by Bruce L. Balshone and has been published by Praeger Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Architecture categories.
Bicycling For Everyone
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Bicycling For Everyone written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Bicycles categories.
The Cycling City
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Author : Evan Friss
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-04
The Cycling City written by Evan Friss and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with History categories.
As Evan Friss shows in his mordant history of urban bicycling in the late nineteenth century, the bicycle has long told us much about cities and their residents. In a time when American cities were chaotic, polluted, and socially and culturally impenetrable, the bicycle inspired a vision of an improved city in which pollution was negligible, transport was noiseless and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country blurred. Friss focuses not on the technology of the bicycle but on the urbanisms that bicycling engendered. Bicycles altered the look and feel of cities and their streets, enhanced mobility, fueled leisure and recreation, promoted good health, and shrank urban spaces as part of a larger transformation that altered the city and the lives of its inhabitants, even as the bicycle's own popularity fell, not to rise again for a century.
Invisible Bicycle
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Invisible Bicycle written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Invisible Bicycle revisits and questions the existing timelines of bicycle history to create a more nuanced understanding of why and how the popularity of the bicycle and cycling has changed over time and varies in different locations.
On Bicycles
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Author : Evan Friss
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-07
On Bicycles written by Evan Friss and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with History categories.
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics.
Bike Battles
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Author : James Longhurst
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-04-15
Bike Battles written by James Longhurst and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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. Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s. Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they’re simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn’t - welcome on our roads. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNleJ0tDvqg
Bicycle And Pedestrian Facilities In The Federal Aid Highway Program
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Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Bicycle And Pedestrian Facilities In The Federal Aid Highway Program written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Bicycle trails categories.