Fellow listers,
I am currently reading a new/old book entitled Riding High by Arthur Judsen Palmer (1956). This book describes the development of bicycles and bicycling from its modern (not counting DaVinci) inception in the early 1800s to mid-20th century. Facinating read and certainly makes you wonder and appreciate what kind of world we would have if petroleum and internal combustion hadn't eclipsed cycling. For example, in 1900 there was an elevated, grade-compensated wooden cycleway that ran the 9 miles from Pasadena to Los Angeles, California that included toll gates. What anyone familiar with that route would give to fly down that cycleway! Similar, though perhaps not as elaborate, cycleways were built in many major cities of USA.
Jack Romans
Sacrmanto, CA