num_pages: 288
description: 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 Americas 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. Theyre finding physical fitness low-cost transportation environmental purityand still all too often Wild West risks of sudden death or injury. from the introduction
language: English
title: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
publisher: Oregon State University Press