Turning the Corner? A Reader in Contemporary Transport Policy. Francis Terry, ed. 2004. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. 209 pp. $34.95 paperback.

According to the Associated Press, a poll commissioned recently by a non-profit organization found that 20% of all Americans think the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees them the right to drive a car.1 While this finding may make us chuckle, it should also give us pause, because it points out the magnitude of the problem faced by transportation planners in their efforts to ease congestion. And each year, even as commute times increase and traffic gets worse, vehicle ownership and vehicle-miles traveled continue to spiral upward.