Bullcrap. This role didn’t just start. In 1996 (twenty years ago) Ben Gomberg was assigned Chicago’s 1st “Bike Czar” bicycle coordinator/director. Same type of job, same responsibilities, same charge. Other cities have been doing the same thing since. The title has a different ring, such as “Bicycle Commissioner”, “Bicycle Czar”, or “Chief Bicycle Officer”… but it’s the same job with the same intent… just that the title is slightly tweaked. Making the claim of being the first is so silly that the next city can call it the “Bicycle President” for the same job and claim to be the “first”.