Bike Battles Quotes

“the ANARCHY of the cyclist can be afforded NO LONGER!”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“shall act like a pedestrian or die like a pedestrian.”21”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“The Victory Bike battle on the home front marked the first policy attempt to privilege one mode of transport over another on the basis of sustainability and efficiency.”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“bicycles were not equal inhabitants of the roadway, and they were to be shunted toward the side, out of the way of more worthy road users.”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“a consensus was building that automobilists should be “held to a stricter obedience . . . than drivers of lighter and slower moving vehicles.”19”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“Whatever the association, bicyclists commingling with motor vehicle traffic are still considered oddities: not fully American; not equally deserving of protection or public expenditure; parasites on the gasoline taxes paid by automobile drivers; and symbols of white, middle-class, urban, environmentalist elitism. Bicyclists remain “them,” not “us.”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

“bicyclists have never been considered fully a part of the larger imagined community of the American public.”
― James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road