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Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World - Drummond, Allan
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Today if you visit Amsterdam, you'll see bikes everywhere - they rule the road! But that wasn't always the case. Fifty years ago, Amsterdam was so crowded with vehicles that bicyclists could hardly move. But mums and kids relied on their bikes to get from place to place in the city. What could they do? Women like Maarjte van Putten and her friends led protests, and one day, a whole swarm of women and children took over the new big tunnel meant just for vehicles to show what a little pedal power could do. They were arrested, ...

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Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World 2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr), New York

ISBN-13: 9780374305277

Hardcover