{"id":2360,"date":"2017-02-17T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:52:11","slug":"review-roads-were-not-built-for-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"Review: Roads Were Not Built for Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlton Reid has done some impressive research into the relationship of bicycles and modern transport infrastructure.\u00a0 It is a surprisingly rich relationship.\u00a0 The first automobiles adopted the power chain and wheel technologies from bicycles (as did aircraft as well, of course).\u00a0 Beyond that, bicycles were a driving force behind paving roads across the US and Europe.\u00a0 <em>Roads Were Not Built For Cars<\/em> is Reid&#8217;s presentation of this.<\/p>\n<p>He does an excellent job of research, but his presentation didn&#8217;t bring the situation to life for me.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unfortunate, because the facts at issue interest me considerably.\u00a0 Reid presents both facts and conjecture that are surprising &#8211; did Nazi Germany whitewash England&#8217;s cycling contributions to automotive technology for political reasons? &#8211; but if he shaped it all into a narrative, I didn&#8217;t make it there.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t finish the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlton Reid has done some impressive research into the relationship of bicycles and modern transport infrastructure.\u00a0 It is a surprisingly rich relationship.\u00a0 The first automobiles adopted the power chain and wheel technologies from bicycles (as did aircraft as well, of course).\u00a0 Beyond that, bicycles were a driving force behind paving roads across the US and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}