Re: America's Love Affair with the Car

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

>The phrase ["love affair with the car"] certainly has the smell of the 1950s, and that would be logical, given that the Interstate Highway Act that arose there.  Can you imagine any politician proposing a multi-trillion-dollar (adjusting for inflation here) public works project these days?<

Back in the 1950s, the Interstate Highway system was justified in terms of national defense. I would guess there were references to the German autobahns, which allowed the Nazi government to move supplies & troops between fronts more easily, while WW2 was a two-front war for the US, too, so the analogy would seem apt.

Jim D.