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THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION - PART 2

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Even so, such averages can be deceptive. On the one hand, some smaller urban areas are without effective public transportation even by bus, and rely almost entirely on the private automobile. At the other extreme, New York City, which generates about four-fifths of all rail and one-fifth of all bus traffic for the nation, would be crippled if the 62% of work trips made by transit were thrown onto the private automobile. Other very large cities with high population densities likewise depend heavily on public transportation, particularly for trips to and from work. However, in all but the largest cities, the private automobile is dominant; in the central areas of cities with populations over 100,000, 72% of the work trips are by private automo¬bile. How much and how rapidly transit use will increase because of gasoline shortages and price increases is still unknown.

Motor vehicles also dominate goods movements in urban areas. First of all, they take the urban-bound intercity motor freight directly to its destination or to terminals for distribution by smaller trucks. Then they distribute all sorts of prod¬ucts within individual urban areas and consolidate loads for intercity transport.  In addition, the whole gamut of public services ranging from garbage and trash collection to maintenance of streets and utilities is based on truck transport.

Motor transportation has also changed the faces of our cities. Until some 50 yr ago, urban populations were concentrated in limited, tightly knit areas, largely because of the restrictions in movement imposed by rail-mounted or horse-drawn vehicles. The combined effects of the freedom of movement of¬fered by motor transportation and the population shift from rural to urban areas have caused urban areas veritably to "explode." This trend began after World War 1 and has rapidly accelerated since World War II. Today our urban areas have, for better or worse, assumed a new, dispersed form, geared to motor ve¬hicle transportation. As discussed in Chapter 3, efforts are under way to slow or reverse this trend but the results will be seen slowly, if at all.

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