Here is something on the WisDOT website:
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/travel/bike-foot/docs/history.pdf
I also read about early bike advocacy a number of years ago in the first of a
large two-set
volume of books at WisDOT.
A History of Wisconsin Highway Department, 1835-1945, State Highway
Commission
of Wisconsin and the Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency, 1947
(The second continued the history after 1945)
Mike Rewey
On 26 Mar 2014 at 11:35, Robbie Webber wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Andy Bach<[email protected]>wrote:
> 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.
> Yes, I heard the author speak at the Wisconsin Bike Summit, and it seemed he
> focused mostly on
> the bike industry, not on the infrastructure of the state. League of American
> Bicyclists was formed
> well over 100 years ago to push for the "Good Roads Movement" nationwide, so
> I don't doubt that
> there were local enthusiasts doing the same thing. But the article in today's
> paper talks about
> counties being required to have at least one cross-county route that was
> good. And that a portion
> of rural roads were paved in this way.
> But outside the Driftless area - where some roads that dead end on ridge tops
> are unpaved - and
> northern Wisconsin, where unpaved roads are common, most roads are paved.
> Even the little
> farm roads with almost no traffic are paved. That's what makes road biking so
> amazing here.
> Robbie Webber
> Transportation Policy Analyst
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> 608-225-0002 (c)
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> All opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my
> employer or any
> other group with which I am affiliated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
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> Andy Bach,
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