Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneer s of MotoringIn Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal'and largely unrecognized'role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the poor man's