Nine hundred sixty-eight kilometers of road that belongs to everybody.
Six hundred two miles circling an entire island and coming back to a zero-kilometer marker outside Songshan Station in Taipei. Taiwan spent the mid-2000s deciding the coastline belonged to people moving at fifteen miles an hour. Cycling Route No. 1 opened December 30, 2015 — dedicated paths, quiet roads, rest stations every twenty kilometers.
King Liu built the largest bicycle company on earth and didn't ride the loop until he was 73. Fifteen days. He did it again at 80 and cut it to twelve. He said he'd been an old man contemplating retirement and instead found a brand-new version of himself.
It started with a movie. A film about a deaf young man riding around his own country lodged in the national imagination, and then a government poured concrete for a farmer on a secondhand bike.
What's the path near you that somebody had to fight a budget line for?
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