From SacBee.com
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The small university town of Davis helped redefine how American cities think about cycling. When city crews painted the nation’s first modern bike lane on Third Street in 1967, they created more than a new road feature — they offered a model for safer, more livable streets that would spread across California and into national design manuals. But cycling was common in Davis long before the 1960s: Newspaper archives from the 1940s reference bicycle licensing, and many UC Davis faculty routinely biked to campus.