Q:
Originally Posted by
genec
So you don't believe in the "jaywalk" story?
A:
Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I believe that alleged bicycle advocates who promote the "jaywalk" story, as well as the "hostile takeover" by the motor car story, and the evil "tyranny" of the motor car, the roads are here thanks to 1880-1890 cyclists story, as well as the joy of life in the early 1900's on the Lower East Side of NYC, will have themselves and anyone associated with them dismissed as, at best, silly-willy ideologues, if not moonbeam children.
My grandfather grew up before the advent of the automobile, and his recollections of the "good-ol-days" weren't that good. Propagating these naive fairy tales is an embarrassment, and an insult to ones intelligence.