"Those most married to the freedom of four wheels might be surprised to know just how big a chunk of income they are sinking into that hunk of metal."
--chairman of Los Angeles County Metropoltan Transit Authority
"We buy our cars to go to work and then we work to buy our cars."
--Elliot Sclar.
"See how the finny monster dominates your life, occupies a large room of your house, eats up about 13 percent of your income, demolishes the hegemony of your town, manufactures your smog, threatens your park, recklessly sires a profusion of billboards in an already uglified world, invites the spread of slurbs."
--Samuel E. Wood and Alfred E. Heller, Phantom Cities of California
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[1] Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back (New York: Random House, 1997), pp. 79, 247 |
