Fighting Traffi c The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City Peter D. Norton The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. For information on quantity discounts, email
[email protected]. Set in Stone serif and Stone sans by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Norton, Peter D. Fighting traffi c : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / Peter Norton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-14100-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Transportation, Automotive—Social aspects—United States. 2. Transportation, Automotive—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. HE5623.N67 2008 388.3'21097309042—dc22 2007035522 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Index Accidents. See Traffi c accidents Americanism and American ideals, 9, Adams, Charles Francis, 120 17, 18, 66, 149, 154, 168, 173, 181, Adams, Henry Carter, 120, 121 185, 205, 206, 242, 264n14 Adams, Thomas, 85 American Road Builders Association, Administrative state, 179 212, 237 Advertising, 12, 34, 79–82, 195, 196 American Society of Civil Engineers, Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for 126, 173, 203, 204, 236 Street Traffi c Research, 165–169, American Society of Municipal 191, 204, 234, 235, 247, 249, 258, Improvements, 239 374n17 Anderson, George Baker, 152, 157, 195, American Association of State Highway 205 Offi cials, 186 Arnheim, W.