Cyclist'S Manifesto: The Case for Riding on two Wheels Instead of Four [Audiobook] download free by Robert Hurst
- Listen audiobook: Cyclist'S Manifesto: The Case for Riding on two Wheels Instead of Four
- Author: Robert Hurst
- Release date: 2009/7/25
- Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780762751280
- Rating: 9.66 of 10
- Votes: 61
- Review by: Trent Mccullough
- Review rating: 8.14 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/8
- Duration: 2H46M50S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WMA, FLAC, MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG4, WAV, WMA Lossless (compression RAR, ZIP, 7-ZIP, TAR.LZO)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M41S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The basic thesis of the manifesto is as follows: The American aversion to bicycling for transportation is a unique historical-cultural absurdity that is based largely on false assumptions and bad information. As the nation's acute energy predicament intensifies, the most simple and elegant remedy available is the one that almost never gets mentioned. The avoidance of the bicycle in recent public discourse has been conspicuous, ridiculous, and downright strange. While bicycling, for a variety of reasons, will not be the best choice for everybody, it is realistic to think that we in the US could grow the mode share of the bicycle to around 5%. (This would represent a huge increase in the number of cyclists currently on the road, but would still be far below levels currently seen in many European countries.) Boosting the mode share of bicycling to this seemingly modest level would produce rather intense, far-reaching positive effects (and a few negative ones), at an extremely low cost. The latter half of the manifesto will be devoted to painting the undeniably tantalizing picture of just what those effects might be - for instance, the health care savings would be astronomical - and the different ways that individuals and governments can go about wresting back control over their energy destiny. The author's recommendations are surprising. It'll be easier than we think. It will even be fun. The roads are already bikeable, and there's an old bike waiting in the garage behind the wetvac.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Transportation Books, Road & Motor Vehicles, Cycling
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.52 USD
- Dimensions: 139.7x213.36x15.24mm
- Weight: 16g
- Printed by: Falcon Guides
- Published in: United States
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