An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)

An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)
Gizmodo
4/27/15

Over a century ago, the California Cycleway promised an elevated, dedicated bike path from Los Angeles to the nearby city of Pasadena. In this excerpt from the new book LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas, author Dan Koeppel tracks its path through Southern California—and discovers why it was never finished.