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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