The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. – James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. – Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. – Charles M. Allen