Nobody Drives in LA — The California Cycleway
<p>If, like me, you ride a bicycle in <strong>Los Angeles</strong>, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of the fabled <strong>California Cycleway</strong> — an elevated, wooden bicycle tollway that existed for an all-too-brief moment at the dawn of the <strong>20th Century </strong>— before <strong>the Age of the Automobile</strong>. The California Cycleway is legendary — and as with all legends, separating truth from fiction can be a challenge. Filling in the blanks requires conjecture and speculation. I’ve heard and read, for example, that the California Cycleway was the first bicycle highway, that its intended terminus was <strong>Union Station </strong>but that it only made it to <strong>the Raymond Hotel</strong>, that it was built by the former mayor of <strong>Pasadena</strong>, that there was a casino at its midpoint, and that it was killed by the car. None of that, it turns out, is true.</p>
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