I heard a comment today that Red Bank’s streets are too crowded for bike lanes. Maybe they’re just too crowded for cars. Most of the town’s streets were installed before the onset of the Car Age. They were built for people, horses and carts, and, as it happens, bicycles. Interurban travel was by 19thC transit, the tram and the railway.
Yes. Cars are interlopers into the pleasant streets and avenues of this cool little town. As they arrived aggressive sales saw bus and tramways bought out and closed down. Appalling death and serious injury rates from collisions with pedestrians and cyclists meant the introduction of rules designed to ease the conscience of the car buying public.
