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In honor of National Bike Month, The Jaxson has five Jacksonville bicycle history facts and sites.
Read More: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/five-jacksonville-bicycle-history-facts/
Thanks for this. Just to add a few more local bicycle related facts:
https://jaxpsychogeo.com/west/jacksonville-velodrome/
and the Tour of the America's race in the late 80s that had a stage in downtown Jacksonville. I believe Greg LeMond raced coming off his hunting accident as well as the 7-Eleven professional cycling team along with other professional cycling teams from around the world. I believe Davis Phinney won the stage.
QuoteIn 1934, to put Jacksonville citizens back to work, the WPA offered to develop a 14-mile, 3,500-acre metropolitan park system for the City. The urban green space would have connected the mouth of the Ribault River, moving west until reaching Cedar Creek. From that point, the park would have followed Cedar Creek and the Ortega River, ending where the Ortega meets the St. Johns, forming a greenbelt around urban Jacksonville. A major part of this plan would have been to connect the Ribault and Ortega Rivers at their headwaters, thus virtually converting urban Jacksonville into an island with miles of driveways, walks, bike paths and picnic shelters.
Just think what Jacksonville would have today if it didn't have such terrible leaders back then.