The Automobile Is The Nation's 'Engine Of Freedom'

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan

10 October 2001 - 7:00am

Brock Yates writes that the automobile is the "engine of freedom" in the U.S. as motor vehices continued to operate after Sept 11th while other transportation systems were shut down, crippled, or encountered glitches.

[P]lanners and ideologues hate sprawl because it demands the use of motor vehicles as the primary transportation device...[After the Sept. 11th attacks] , the New York subways stopped. All civilian air transportation was shut down and will remain crippled for months... The terrorist assault underscored the reality that mass transit, the ultimate fantasy of those who seek a well-regulated, neatly controlled society, is no panacea for a nation as large and fragmented as the United States."

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Source: The Detroit Free Press, October 8, 2001