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#ReplaceBikewithCar – There was a Time when we DID replace Bike with Car

April 6, 2014 by Average Joe Cyclist

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Avatarwp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-96 photoThe current fear and hatred of cyclists was parodied by the hilarious #ReplaceBikewithCar Twitter campaign. The idea was to show the ludicrousness of anti-bike rhetoric by replacing “bike” with “car.” For example:

Our sensible ancestors rightly feared the presence of cars in cities. #ReplaceBikewithCar https://t.co/TUnl2k3WM4 via @AvrgeJoeCyclist

— BicycleUrbanist (@bicycleurbanist) December 29, 2015

A few bad drivers shouldn’t stop us from building car lanes. #replacebikewithcar http://t.co/NnrGwnhuWW

— Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) May 14, 2014

This campaign highlighted the craziness of some of the anti-cycling statements. But what most people don’t realize is that just over a hundred years ago, most road-users hated motorists just as much as many motorists today hate cyclists. A century ago, bikes WERE in fact replaced by cars in the frightened, angry rhetoric of most road users.

Yes, really – not so long ago, almost all sensible people were afraid of cars. In the early 20th century, cars were seen as dangerous menaces, a threat to civilized means of transport, like walking, biking, and horse-drawn carriages. Today, most people seem to see people on bikes as dangerous, while thinking of cars as a sensible means of transport.

For some reason, many people see bikes as more threatening than cars. ReplaceBikewithCar
For some reason, many people see bikes as more threatening than cars

It’s  fascinating to look back to the arrival of motors cars, and see how  people resisted cars as fiercely as some people now resist bikes.

Cars were first invented in 1885, but it took decades before they became a threat to pedestrians, horses and cyclists. As late as 1907 they still were seen as irrelevant, annoying, noisy, smelly nuisances. The editor of the New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle wrote:

“The automobile fever is catching.  [Soon] … the chug-chug noise will be quite common. … The horsemen need not get alarmed that the motor car will injure their business in our country.”
(New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle, 19 April 1907)

Good thing this guy was in newspapers, not investment advice!

ReplaceBikewithCar - Christchurch New Zealand in the early 20th century: This photo shows Phase 1 of the struggle for road space, as motorists attempted to seize control of the roads from people on bikes. ReplaceBikewithCar
Christchurch New Zealand in the early 20th century: This photo shows Phase 1 of the struggle for road space, as motorists attempted to seize control of the roads from people on bikes

As cars became more common, hatred of cars increased – and so did fear of cars. (Amazing how much this sounds like what is happening today with bikes.) A newspaper correspondent called cars the “running stinkers,” saying he was “one who doesn’t own an auto – but one who is likely to get run over.” As cars continued to terrorize other road users and fear grew, moralists came out in force. In just the same way as motorists are now preaching to cyclists, the Chronicle editor warned:

ReplaceBikewithCar - horse pedestrian cyclist“The auto people have the right to use the public roads, but they must do so in a reasonable manner.  If they go rushing about the country regardless of whom they may annoy or injure they can be hauled up with a round turn, but as long as they are careful and regulate to statutory speed their right is undeniable.”

A correspondent agreed:

“There surely should be some legislation for the people who maintain the roads and who in their daily avocation are constantly called on to use these roads.  Their rights should be protected against these life endangering pleasure jaunters.”

The fear of cars a century ago was very sensible. Their noisy engines and horns on formerly peaceful country roads terrified both horses and humans. One correspondent admitted that he was:

… “(in) mortal terror of one of these devil wagons meeting us when we are driving along the road, our horse taking the nearest fence and leaving us stranded on the roadside, possibly maimed for life, and our good looks considerably out of joint.”

Legislation was enacted to defend the fearful horse-riding majority against the motorized encroachers:

“The speed of the stink wagons [motor cars] is limited to a mile in 8 minutes [12 kph].  On passing a team [of horses] if the driver of the team holds up his hands, the Chauffeur of the stink wagon must bring it to a standstill and remain in that condition until the driver of the horse gives permission to start.”

ReplaceBikewithCar - 500 Block of Carrall Street, Vancouver, in 1906: The streets still belonged to cyclists, horses and pedestrians – but cars were lurking on the horizon, poised to take over (Vancouver Public Library: Special Collections Historical Photographs)
500 Block of Carrall Street, Vancouver, in 1906: The streets still belonged to cyclists, horses and pedestrians – but cars were lurking on the horizon, poised to take over (Vancouver Public Library: Special Collections Historical Photographs)

Just as today’s short-sighted business owners (irrationally) fear losing trade because of bike lanes, back in the early 20th century business men were afraid of the newfangled “stink wagons” – also referred to as “gasoline devils” and “devil wagons.” The editor of the New Glasgow wrote:

“… we feel fairly certain that besides the danger and injury inflicted, these `devil wagons’ will lose the merchants of the town thousands of dollars worth of trade, because the country people will not, and justly so, risk their lives, coming or going from town, by meeting one of these machines.”

ReplaceBikewithCar - Business people on bikes in 1880 - unthreatened by motor cars, still owning the road in stately safety
Bike commuters in 1880 – unthreatened by motor cars, still owning the road in stately safety

The notion of people being afraid to go downtown for fear of meeting a car seems ludicrous today – but perhaps our ancestors were more sensible than we, given that on average, 12 pedestrians and 2 cyclists are killed every single day by cars in the USA? (That’s 14 devastated families every.single.day, because a loved one has been violently smashed to death by a motor car.) (2014 stats) And let’s not forget that if you are under the age of 29 and reside on the North American continent, the most likely thing to kill you is not illness or terrorism or drugs or a crazed shooter – no, the most likely thing to kill you is something that advertising has been teaching you to love and revere your entire life … cars. Yet quite bizarrely, pedestrians have entirely gotten over their perfectly rational dread of cars – instead, business owners fear that their customers will be too lazy to walk a couple of blocks after parking their cars, due to the removal of a few dozen parking spaces to accommodate  new bike lanes. See for example the raging debate about bikes lanes on Vancouver’s Hornby, Dunsmuir and Union Streets!

ReplaceBikewithCar - Henry Ford, first man to mass-produce cars, sits in the first car he made, in 1896. It would be many years before the majority of people would accept his mass-produced “stink wagons.”
Henry Ford, first man to mass-produce cars, sits in the first car he made, in 1896. It would be many years before the majority of people would accept his mass-produced “stink wagons.”

Opponents of the “stink wagons” used an argument similar to that used today against cyclists, equating horse riders with sensible business people and car drivers with frivolous layabouts:

“If we have to put up with them [motor cars], drivers of horses will be driven off the roads.  Drivers of horses are mostly on business, but the `devil wagons’ are used for fun.  Has the whole county, whose people built the roads for their own use in order to do their work, to put up with these pleasure jaunters?”

Interesting that the horse-riding majority was claiming to have built the roads by and for themselves, and resented the new car drivers (falsely claiming motorists had not contributed to the building of the roads). This is exactly like many cyclophobes today, who allege that roads are paid for solely by people who happen to drive cars (and falsely claiming that frivolous cyclists do not own property or pay taxes, and therefore have no right to use the roads!).

People on bikes should not be relegated to the perimeters of transportation routes. Here, two of my kids push their bikes along a narrow, rutted sidewalk - sadly, this is a part of Metro Vancouver's "Central Valley Greenway" ...
People on bikes should not be relegated to the perimeters of transportation routes. Here, two of my kids push their bikes along a narrow, rutted sidewalk – sadly, this is a part of Metro Vancouver’s much vaunted “Central Valley Greenway” … it’s looked like this since the route opened six years ago, and apparently, it is deemed good enough for cyclists, and suitable for “all ages and abilities”!

As we know, people did eventually accept motor cars. However, it did not happen overnight – in fact, it would take DECADES before cars were accepted and adopted in large numbers. I am optimistic that people will be a little quicker to accept the positive changes associated with increased cycling, especially given  the increasingly irrefutable proof of global warming, constantly rising obesity and “lifestyle” diseases, and of course, ever-higher gas prices.

ReplaceBikewithCar - In Montreal, thousands of cyclists use the well-established, mainly separated bike lanes at rush hour - freeing up the roads for cars.
In Montreal, thousands of cyclists use the well-established, mainly separated bike lanes at rush hour – freeing up the roads for cars.

ReplaceBikewithCarIn the meantime, let’s just remember that change takes time. Expecting the  new separated bike lanes of Vancouver to immediately resemble the crowded bike lanes of Montreal or Copenhagen does not take into account that people take time to embrace change. Despite the fact that research clearly shows the immense value of separated bike lanes.

Cycling: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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Not so long ago, adults on bikes might be laughed at, pitied or simply ignored. Now there are many more of us, and motorists have stopped ignoring us – and stopped laughing. Cyclists are now at the stage of being fought with, but inevitably, we will win. Our city planners are well aware that cities such as Vancouver cannot be sustainable in the future unless viable alternatives to cars are embraced. Be it ever so glacial, change is nonetheless inevitable.

ReplaceBikewithCar - This photo shows Phase 2 of the struggle for road space, as cyclists attempt to take back control of slim slivers of the roads from people in "stinkwagons"
This photo shows Phase 2 of the struggle for road space, as cyclists take control of slim slivers of some of the roads from the “stinkwagons”
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