http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2009/08/13/woodward-the-first-mile-of-concrete-highway Promoting non-motorized transportation in the Motor City Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:32:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2009/08/13/woodward-the-first-mile-of-concrete-highway/comment-page-1#comment-2424 The new CRD Bike/Ped plan – Corey Burger Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:54:35 +0000 http://www.m-bike.org/blog/?p=2616#comment-2424 [...] The main part of Monday night was actually the public advocacy session, attended by 70+ people from all stripes, although the crowd was heavily tilted toward bicycle advocates, a trend that continued the next day. To start the evening off, Tracy Corbett, Senior Manager of Regional Planning at the CRD, pointed out this isn’t the first bike plan the regiona as a whole has created, showing the 1897 bike route map seen on the right. This is also about the era that bicyclists where leading the fight for paving of roads, something forgotten in the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first concrete road. [...] [...] The main part of Monday night was actually the public advocacy session, attended by 70+ people from all stripes, although the crowd was heavily tilted toward bicycle advocates, a trend that continued the next day. To start the evening off, Tracy Corbett, Senior Manager of Regional Planning at the CRD, pointed out this isn’t the first bike plan the regiona as a whole has created, showing the 1897 bike route map seen on the right. This is also about the era that bicyclists where leading the fight for paving of roads, something forgotten in the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first concrete road. [...]

]]> http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2009/08/13/woodward-the-first-mile-of-concrete-highway/comment-page-1#comment-2200 Streetsblog San Francisco » Remembering How the Roads Got Paved Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:24:19 +0000 http://www.m-bike.org/blog/?p=2616#comment-2200 [...] who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit's  M-Bike.org reminds us, were [...] [...] who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit's  M-Bike.org reminds us, were [...]

]]> http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2009/08/13/woodward-the-first-mile-of-concrete-highway/comment-page-1#comment-2199 Streetsblog Los Angeles » Remembering How the Roads Got Paved Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:13:47 +0000 http://www.m-bike.org/blog/?p=2616#comment-2199 [...] who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit's  M-Bike.org reminds us, were [...] [...] who led the way for their paving. The vehicles some of these men were operating, as Detroit's  M-Bike.org reminds us, were [...]

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