COVENTRY, ENGLAND - Through leafy suburban streets, then up and over a narrow bridge, the path for cyclists heading north into Coventry seems smooth and easy until it ends abruptly - at a busy four-lane ring road with no on-ramp.
"If you look at the health crisis, the air quality crisis, the obesity crisis, the Covid-19 crisis - time and time again the bicycle shows it has a real part to play," said Adam Tranter, a bicycling advocate born and raised in Coventry, a city whose topography he says has left cyclists in the slow lane.
His nephew, John Kemp Starley, developed the Rover Safety Bicycle, the basic design of which would be familiar to modern cyclists.Building on that legacy is one objective of Tranter, Coventry's first"bicycle mayor."As the head of a public relations firm, Tranter has seen the opportunity and has the endorsement of Chris Hoy, a British Olympic gold-medal-winning cyclist.
"It's a nightmare," he said, adding,"I wouldn't encourage anyone to cycle in Coventry." That, he says, reflects poor urban planning and changes resulting from World War II, when the German air force bombed the city in 1940. But Joy Corcec, a museum spokesman, acknowledged that the combustion engine had made life tough for the city's cyclists.Outside, Harry Gearing, a cyclist who dons a video camera on his bike helmet, said that there were"too many cars on the road, and some of them don't care about cyclists."
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