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Journalists keep telling us that ‘Americans have a love affair with the automobile’ as though some irrational infatuation has seized us. But they’re wrong. Americans, and Europeans and Asians and Africans have discovered that the automobile is the most effective surface trnasp system yet devised. Unlike all other modes it provides no-wait, no-transfer service...at tolerable cost. Where parking is available, as in most suburban settings, it provides door to door accessibility. It is no wonder that Americans, and everyone else who can do so, have adopted cars as their primary mode of travel.” — Melvin M Webber, Director Uni Cal Berkeley Transp Center ACCESS #5 Fall 1994...regularly challenges the delusions of the US transport establishment - the mindless anti-highway policies,. the royalist ‘Let ‘em eat rail’ dictats that pass for sophistication in Washington DC.