Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America. From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes ...
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Updated Edition includes a new epilogue by the author In a world of increasing traffic congestion, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on city streets. Pedaling Revolution explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America. From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bikes, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling. He rides with bicycle advocates who are taming the streets of New York City, joins the street circus that is Critical Mass in San Francisco, and gets inspired by the every-day folk pedaling in Amsterdam, the nirvana of American bike activists. Chapters focused on big cities, college towns, and America's most successful bike city, Portland, show how cyclists, with the encouragement of local officials, are claiming a share of the valuable streetscape. "A growing number of Americans, mounted on their bicycles like some new kind of urban cowboy, are mixing it up with swift, two-ton motor vehicles as they create a new society on the streets. They're finding physical fitness, low-cost transportation, environmental purity--and, still all too often, Wild West risks of sudden death or injury." --from the introduction
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Mapes has a very readable style, and this book rapidly becomes too engaging to put down. He has done a lot of research and writes very clearly. Even for those not particularly interested in advocacy, the book is worth reading as a modern history of the cycling scene. I found masses of really informative and relevant stuff in this book and it still was very worthwhle reading even though I do not live in the USA - a lot of the trends, observations and lessons described are applicable anywhere.
mkenseth
Nov 18, 2010
bicycles are good
I like this book because it backs up the idea of bicycling as a positive change for society. I learned why it costs much less money for bicycling infrastructure than automobile infrastructure, and why the politics involved can be challenging in some places and easier in other places. Bicycling improves physical and mental health, social health, personal finances, and environmental health.
