Britain, the most densely road-congested country in the world, is facing a transport próblem which might well bring despair to statisticians, joy io surveyors and mechanics, and the reflection to earnest observers that walking is disappearing from the list of human activities, writes the motor-g representative of the "Sunday To-day there are fourteen vehicles ^to every mile of road, without taking into account the great army of pedal cyclists, which has more than doubt led in five years. Nearly 450,000 new motor vehicles of every description. representing a season's output of British industry, are in the process of taking the road. Many are, of course, replacements for "crocks," but the rate of increase is steepening, and itis hard to estimate what the road population of the nation is likely to be in three or five years' time,
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