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and noisy, will not meet the minimal transportation needs of urban arcas.
The Poorly Served: A second irony of the auto-based trans portation system is that, despite the vast amount of public and private money spent on cars and roads, a large number of auto users are poorly served.
Most large urban areas experience massive congestion during peak hours. Yet the number of automobile registrations con- tinues to expand rapidly: By 1975, the United States will have well over 120 million vehicles for a population of 220 million. Is the only answer to traffic congestion more and wider roads? Clearly in many localities, it is not. The dislocation of people and businesses, the distortion of land use, the erosion of the real property tax base, and the dollars and cents cost. make this an increasingly unacceptable solution. If carried to its illogical conclusion, an ever-increasing population, building more and bigger highways, might produce a city of freeways with hardly any room for people or buildings.18
