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It is hard to know how much difference it made, but closing
the central campus to car travel in the fall of 1967 seems likely to have
prompted at least some increase in resident rates of bike travel and therefore
bike lane use.
At any rate, it is certainly an interesting coincidence that
campus officials would select the moment Davis starts bike lanes to change it’s
campus traffic organization in a way that fostered much greater bike use (November 7 photo, after the jump, below).
Several other stories in this series document a number of
the many other actions taken by UCD to both encourage and accommodate bike use.
Let me suggest that the ordinary “bike narrative” that Davis tells itself might give UCD officials much more credit than it usually does for the rise of the bike as a key
feature of Davis life.
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| November 7 |
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| November 10 |
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| November 27 |
