Reddit reviews Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring
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Island Press
USA is not in its cycling infancy, the automobile industry, oil giants, etc. just destroyed every other option, defunded them and created biased laws and infrastructure, and social attitudes. Roads as we know them were created for cyclists:
https://www.amazon.com/Roads-Were-Not-Built-Cars/dp/1610916891
Paved roads you absolute clown. Paved fucking roads were built largely because the first people who needed them were bicyclists. https://www.amazon.com/Roads-Were-Not-Built-Cars/dp/1610916891/ref=nodl_
The make a left by being a little bitch method is fine and all, but completely unnecessary 99% of the time.
Drivers are almost unquestionably dumb as fuck. Anyone who would sit for an hour in traffic to go across this city on a regular basis shouldn’t be allowed to drive based solely on being such a dumb fuck.
Just Ride by Grant Petersen. Not specifically about bike commuting, but a good read.
Roads Were Not Built For Cars by Carlton Reid. Talks about the history of bicycles and their impetus for developing national road systems.
Effective Cycling by John Forester. Considered controversial by some in the Cycling community. Right or wrong, I think anyone trying to study city cycling should be familiar with his work.