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Our Strangling Highways. The Vicious (Traffic) Circle
Cort, David | April 28, 1956 issue

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To some people the United States is not seen as people, but as a gigantic skeleton of hard-surface roads crawling with motor vehicles. Seen in this way, the mammoth web of concrete is a monstrosity. But the monstrosity is necessary, say the big thinkers, because seventy million U.S. car-owners are daily impelled to drive an average of twenty-five miles — a statistical total of 1,700,000,000 miles per day. Even if half or three-quarters of this traffic were utterly unnecessary and unprofitable to everybody, they say, it must be maintained and encouraged.

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TRAFFIC congestion; AUTOMOBILES; TRAFFIC flow; ROADS; HIGHWAY capacity; UNITED States
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