The Goodroads Movement

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There was a big movement to build a new road system for bike's, right? Then you go on to say that bicycle advocates ended up literally paving the way for the rise of the automobile. What they are really trying to do is get smoothly paved roadways constructed across the united states. And so it was actually a very successful effort. But shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, again, we have the risen of the automotive age.

Jody Rosen is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a bike nut who has just published a rousing (and sometimes arousing) book called “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” Today, he takes us on a rollicking ride through the two-wheeled revolution, revealing the surprising ways bicycles have shaped the world in which we live.

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