Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use roads and were the first to push for high-quality sealed surfaces and were the first to lobby for national funding and leadership for roads. The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use.
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"How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring." ROADS WERE NOT BUILT FOR CARS is a print, Kindle, iPad and free e-book about roads history. Truly, the hand which rules the motor rocks the world. I am I and She is She – the rest get out of the way. Sometimes I break down, and thousands flock round me, so that I dislocate the traffic. Now that I am come, they go on making roads-making them up. Wise rulers saw me coming and made roads. The roads were made for me years ago they were made. And I go forward, ever forward, and pass through or over almost everything. I pass swiftly from place to place, and horses bolt in dust storms which cover the land. The Autocrat is dead, but I, I increase and multiply. The Democrat has the rates so have I-two-one for use and one for County Courts. Millions admit my sway-on both sides of the road. Furred also am I, stop-watched and horse-powerful. Only an idiot would choose to murder with a gun or a knife. Today, if you want to kill with impunity, assassinate your target with a car and you’ll get little more than a slapped wrist. A car, to the editor of Punch in 1907, was “an ingenious device for public slaughter”.
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“Road hogs”, a term first ascribed to cart drivers and their lumbering vehicles, was switched to describing motorists. There are some illuminating cartoons and poems from the Victorian and Edwardian periods of Punch which show how the coming of the motorcar was feared. It’s fascinating to read volumes of Punch and see this transformation: from cars as killers and usurper of rights, motorists as “motor fiends” to motorists as rightful “owners of the road”, immune to any charges of death on the streets. This ‘Motor Ascendancy’, before it became the norm, had been mocked by Punch. The rights of the motorist trumped all other rights. Road deaths had become acceptable to British society. Dean wrote his famous pro-pedestrian tract, Murder Most Foul. However, by the 1920s, ‘Motor Mania’ had seen to it that the Middle Class had become the Motoring Class, and Mr Punch – ie the writers and cartoonists on the magazine – had become “himself an enthusiast of the whirling wheel.” By the 1940s, cars had killed so many people, J. In its Victorian heyday the satirical magazine Punch (1841-2002) poked fun at bicyclists and automobilists: both were guilty of “scorching” (speeding) and both ignored the prior road rights of pedestrians. Posted in 1905-1918, Newspapers, Scorching
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