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outlying areas. Families who worked in the city but wanted to live in the country packed up and populated surrounding regions that were quickly dubbed suburbs. This required
daily and often lengthy commutes to the workplace and to schools. To handle the dramatic number of vehicles that began clogging major roadway arteries, highways, bridges/overpasses and secondary roads
were constructed in earnest throughout the United States. This roadside construction often resulted in traffic moving at a snails pace, and the problem was compounded by the fact that
there were at least two vehicles per average American household. While communities surely rely upon economic prosperity in order to ensure their survival, the problems that have been created
as a result of urban (and suburban) sprawl and rapid growth have had serious and occasionally deadly consequences. Although major road construction throughout the continental U.S. has significantly slowed,
the irritations most motorists face on a daily basis has substantially increased within the past few decades. In a 2001 article for Smithsonian, Doug Stewart wrote, "Over the past
20 years, our highway system has barely expanded at all, yet the total number of miles driven annually has nearly doubled. The family car is a memory: there are now
more motor vehicles in this country (200 million) than drivers. According to one University of Maryland study, parents spend twice as much time behind the wheel on weekdays as they
spend with their children. Trips by mass transit, meanwhile, have dropped steadily. Despite many incentives, carpooling remains unpopular. With more Americans than ever both living and working in widely scattered
suburbs, were wedded to our cars, it seems" (36). This marriage between man, woman, child and machine has hardly been blissful, and
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