On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Robbie Webber <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nice little piece in the State Journal today about the history of paving > roads in Wisconsin. > > What sort of amused me was this passage: > > Farmers called this unnecessary government intervention and denounced >> bicyclists as lazy "city dudes." They urged lawmakers to restrict bicycles. >> Tension between rural residents and urban bicyclists simmered for more >> than a decade. > > Yeah, so we can now say, when somebody in a car yells "Get off my road!" - "Hey buddy, we were here first, we *got* these roads paved!" I'm sure that will solve the conflict ;-> I read/skimmed that "Wheel Fever" book: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whspress/books/book.asp?book_id=418 but I don't recall it telling the story quite that way. -- a Andy Bach, [email protected] 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
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