Show Automobile Saturation And Road Costs i Engineering Engineering News New Record rd j. j Automobile manufacturers woh wok for years yeara have seen the increased production pro of cars confound the dies cies of saturation of the automobile market should begin to realize that thata a new element has entered the field I land and land that it behooves behoove them to o prepare for for it Heretofore fore the prophets of production saturation have based their onn n the Supposed up in in- of the public to find any more money for automobiles But the mone money continues to be found and it will continue to be found probably for a long time it if the prospective can un find any place to run their in comfort comforti and with pleasure No one sees the congestion con I in our city streets and on our county highways without realizing that the saturation point of automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile production is not going to be measured by the purchasing power of the people but by the capacity of our highways Unless more more and better better better bet bet- ter highways are built and more and wider streets are aree opened are opened the use of the automobile will become a diminishing diminishing dimin utility of pleasure The lesion lesson to the manufacturer should be plain Hitherto he has fought every effort to make the automobile pay for any road or street construe tion Maintenance he was willing to support because obviously the car wore out the road but construction he held was the duty of the whole public and not that part of the public that operated motors As a theory that may still be reasonable but if the automobile manufacturer reads the signs aright he will see that practically practical practical- ly he had better do all he can to help get new roads and streets because sooner or later later and and very soon near our crowded centers the centers the demand for automobiles is going to be seriously diminished by the simple fact that there will be no place to run them I oo |