A Short History of Traffic Engineering
 

Great graphic which shows the transportation trends since 1800 from walk/horse to walk/bike/public transit/auto.

Thanks to copenhagenize.com and zite.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16nine/8415594735/

Very clever!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8...30603b1b6f.jpg

pretty cool, except that bicycles are missing from the first graphic...

I don't think any were invented yet in 1800. Even the non pedaled precursors seem to have come 20 years later.

reengineering history
 

Well, except for those 12th Century ones...

http://www.studiolum.com/wang/indrik...cle-06-550.jpg

900 year old ancient medieval bicycle
 

yep, I posted the link in the comments to the article...

many examples of 900 year old bicycles...

http://viola.bz/medieval-knights-ste...illard-castle/

Hoax?

In any case, they never became routine transport.

proto-truthers?

The comparable transpo graphic for those machines (drawn horizontally for convenience):

___[repair]_[repair]____[repair, repair]__[repair]_[repair]_[oh, F it, just bury the damn thing!]