Word: bike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koch thought that the vision might translate at least partly to New York. A transit strike there last spring swelled the ranks of the city's commuting bicyclists to nearly Chinese proportions. Like Toad of Toad Hall discovering the motorcar, Koch seemed to conceive a passion for the bike. As an expression of his enthusiasm, he spent $300,000 from the city's depleted treasury to install 6-ft.-wide bike lanes along two avenues in Manhattan...
...work on bicycles on any given day, and Washington hopes that by 1985 as many as 2.5 million will be on the streets, saving as many as 77,000 bbl. of oil a day. OPEC and the huge American self-regard coincided to persuade millions of Americans that the bike makes both financial and cardiovascular sense...
...designated bike path would protect pedestrians without cutting off the flow of bicycles," John E. Dowling, professor of Biology, says, adding, "The University took a negative step in prohibiting bicycles from the Yard, when it could have taken a positive step in creating separate paths for bicyclists and pedestrians...
Fortunately, none of the obstacles that Bose mentions may be insurmountable. Substantial portions of the bike routes mapped out in the 1975 proposal are on Harvard's property. Moreover, the current construction in the Square affords an opportunity to widen or redesign several major streets to include bicycle lanes. And if the University is willing to hire several full-time policemen to keep bicyclists from entering the Yard, it ought to be willing to make a substantial investment in bicycle paths...
Beth Heiden's skates may be bronze, but her ten-speed is golden. At least that is the way it looked after the 20-year-old blade and bike speedster finished first in the women's world cycling championships in Sallanches, France. Beth, who placed third in the women's 3,000-meter speed-skating competition at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, began bicycle racing only three summers ago, along with her quintuple-gold-medalist brother Eric, 22, as a way of keeping in condition for skating. Now she enjoys the sport as an end in itself...