Word: bikeways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Avenue Bikeway. Nowhere was Buckley's lack of realism as a politician better demonstrated than in his madcap race for mayor. It was never exactly clear why he was doing it. He knew he didn't have a prayer of winning. When a reporter asked him what he would do if elected, he quipped, "I'd demand a recount." One of his aims was to spoil John Lindsay's chances: to Buckley, nothing is more reprehensible than a liberal Republican, because he has diluted conservative doctrine. His politics largely formed by the neat formulations...
...would have gone to Abe Beame; he scared many liberal Democrats into voting for Lindsay. In the campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were a New Yorker, he'd vote for Buckley. And he wasn't kidding...
Chicago, which already has 15 miles of paths along the lake front stretching from one end of the city to the other, is considering putting bikeways down the median strips of its entire boulevard system. States are finally taking action too. Last month, Wisconsin's Governor Warren P. Knowles opened a 297-mile-long bikeway that meanders across the entire state, from La Crosse in the west to Kenosha in the east, the first of its kind in the nation...