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The exhibits had been collected over many years by the museum's founders, Carl Burgwardt and his wife Clarice. [4] The museum closed in November 2009 and the collection was subsequently dispersed, being sold in a series of auctions that took place in 2012 and 2013. [5] [6] Some of the collection items were purchased by the Houston Bicycle ...
In the 2000s, Chicago roads and trails saw an increase in the number of bicyclists. [2] This can, in part, be attributed to mayor Richard M. Daley. Daley said, "My goal is to make the City of Chicago the most bicycle-friendly city in the U.S." Daley created a Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Council (MBAC) in order to encourage bicycling in the city. [3]
According to a 1990 survey, less than 1% of vehicle trips in New York City were made by bicycle, [12] but in 1991, over 75,000 New Yorkers used bicycles to commute to work each day. [13] That year, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduced legislation that became the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA).
The TD Five Boro Bike Tour is an annual recreational cycling event in New York City organized by Bike New York. It is a charity event to fund Bike New York's education programs. Conducted on the first Sunday of May, the 40-mile (64 km) ride has over 32,000 riders. The route takes riders through all five of New York's boroughs and across five ...
The museum houses antique bicycles from the 19th century, balloon tire classics of the 1940s and 1950s and banana seat high-rise handle bar bikes of the 1960s. [3]The museum has more bicycles than it can display at any one time in the 3-story downtown historic building, despite hanging bicycles from ceilings and mounting them on almost every wall, so the museum occasionally rotates the ...
Transportation Alternatives (TransAlt, formerly T.A.) is a non-profit organization in New York City which works to change New York City's transportation priorities to encourage and increase non-polluting, quiet, city-friendly travel and decrease automobile use. [1]
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Bicycle law in the United States regulates the use of bicycles.Although bicycle law is a relatively new specialty within the law, first appearing in the late 1980s, its roots date back to the 1880s and 1890s, when cyclists were using the courts to assert a legal right to use the roads.