Word: bikeways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pollution. Despite such short-term obstacles, however, the future looks bright for the bike. Just as highway building spurred the auto industry, construction of bikeways is expected to boost cycling. Already some 15,000 miles of bike paths are in use, including the 332-mile Wisconsin bikeway that stretches from the state's eastern edge at Lake Michigan across to the Mississippi River. San Francisco has opened the Golden Gate Bridge to cyclists. In campus towns like Champaign and Urbana, Ill., and Davis, Calif., where there are nearly as many bikes as people, there are separate bicycle lanes...
...residents, and the Department of the Interior has plans for nearly 100,000 miles of bicycle trails and paths to be constructed in the next ten years. Already there are at least 15,000 miles of bike roads in the U.S. Longest is the 332-mile Wisconsin Bikeway, stretching from the state's eastern edge at Lake Michigan straight across to the Mississippi River. San Francisco boasts a 7½-mile bike trail in Golden Gate Park. New York's Central Park drives are closed to motorists and crammed with cyclists every summer weekend. Minneapolis throws open parts...