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Bike History and downtown streets as a
shared public resource
James Longhurst Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin – La CrosseTwitter: @laxbikeguy Email: [email protected]
History helps us understand
this present-day conflict with the reminder that the public streets have always
been shared by varied forms of transportation.
Legal “Vehicles”
Through the early modern era, common law and legislation covered many “vehicles, because the purpose of the public streets
was movement, regardless of conveyance.
Detail of “High Street, Whitechapel,” (1837)