It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, “In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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