Originally Posted by
kickstart
Contemporary revisionist sources on this subject always manage to ignore that hard surfacing roads predates bicycles by a long shot in the US. I would hardly consider the efforts of the gentry to pave popular promenades as anything more than an interesting footnote in the evolution of our road networks, and the concept that motor vehicles "hijacked" roads from bicycles is absurd.
So you don't believe in the "jaywalk" story?