St. Paul's War on Bikes
On June 11, 1899, St. Paul deployed a twelve-man bicycle police squad to hunt down fast riders on downtown sidewalks. Discover how a massive transit monopoly, a fierce women’s fashion rebellion, and treacherous streetcar tracks triggered a municipal panic, and how those early everyday wheelmen accidentally drew the literal blueprint for modern paved highways.
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