When Cyclists Made Up an Entire Political Bloc

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:47:19 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:37:38 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote:

The Good Roads movement started in the 1870s, when cars weren't even a carcinogenic toxin in their daddy's eye.

The Good Roads Movement was officially founded in May 1880 and in 1892
began publishing Good Roads Magazine.You can read volume I at
https://tinyurl.com/y6cy4cxm

And, the Model T Ford was first offered in 1909 when 10,666 were
produced and by 1916 some 501,462 were produced. The following year
some 735,020 the volume continued to increase until 1923 when
2,011,125 were sold. During the period of 1909 - 1916 some 1,315,849
Fords were on the road and by 1926 some 10,306,075 Model T Fords had
been marketed..

Federal-Aid Road Act of 1916 created the Federal-Aid Highway Program.
This funded state highway agencies so they could make road
improvements.

In 1909 there were 305,950 registered privately owned motor vehicles
in the U.S. In 1916 there were 3,367,889 and by 1926 there were
19,267,967.

In terms of population, in 1909 there was 1 motor vehicle per every
296 individuals, in 1916 1 per every 30 and by 1926 there was one
privately owned motor vehicle for every six people in the U.S.

Do you really believe that cyclists were the determining factor in the
building of better roads?

As an additional note: the current U.S. population (2018) seems to be
in the neighborhood of 327 million while some 272,840,000 private
motor vehicles are registered. A ratio of 1 vehicle for every 1.2
persons.
--
cheers,

John B.