Experts say our love affair with the automobile is ending, and that could change much more than how we get around – it presents both an opportunity and an imperative to rethink how we build cities, how governments budget and even the contours of the political landscape.The most detailed picture of the trend comes from the United States, where the distance driven by Americans per capita each year flat-lined at the turn of the century and has been dropping for six years. By last Spring, Americans were driving the same distance as they had in 1998. This data is mirrored in Europe, Australia and Japan.
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