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Page 16 - When one comes to think of it, few bicycles do realize the poster. On only one poster that I can recollect have I seen the rider represented as doing any work. But then this man was being pursued by a bull. In ordinary cases the object of the artist is to convince the hesitating neophyte that the sport of bicycling consists in sitting on a luxurious saddle, and being moved rapidly in the direction you wish to go by unseen heavenly powers.
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Page 6 - just as an ecological system is healthiest when it displays great diversity and differentiation, so too is a transportation system most healthy and robust when diverse modal options are available to those moving people or goods. A transportation system dependent on only one or two modes of transport is far more susceptible to disruption and system failure.
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Page 6 - Just as an ecological system is healthiest when it displays great diversity and differentiation, so too is a transportation system healthiest and most robust when diverse modal options are available to those moving people or goods. A transportation system dependent on only one or two modes of transport is far more susceptible to inefficiency, disruption, and system failure...
Page 25 - We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.
Page 9 - With the development of the automobile, people have gained vastly increased freedom of movement. Their desire to escape from crowded and deteriorating cities has become manifest in the horizontal metropolises of the automobile age. Starting from the central cores of established cities, Americans have expanded outward, first in concentric rings and then along the corridors of major roadways in the pattern often called urban sprawl.