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Getting There archive for April 28, 2015

TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015

A man rides a bicycle through heavy smoke that is emitting from a nearby store on fire, Monday, April 27, 2015, during unrest following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Los Angeles bike highway that never was 

In 1899, a madman/visionary/cyclist/entrepreneur named Horace Dobbins dreamed up an idea to build a nine-mile long bike highway in the middle of Southern California. It didn't work, but its idea presaged the highways we know today - those for motorists. Gizmodo tells the tale of…

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