Highway travel reached its prewar peak by 1946 and began to climb at 6 percent per year, which was to continue for decades (U.S. dept. of Transportation, 1979a).
③(幹線)道路の交通量も、1946年に戦前のピークに達し、それ以降、年間6%ずつ増え始め、その勢いは数十年も続いた。(USDT、1979a)
Transit use, on the other hand, declined at about the same rate it had increased during the war.
④一方、公共交通の利用は、戦時中の増加率とほぼ同じ水準(割合)で減っていった。
By 1953, there were fewer than 14 billion transit trips annually (Transportation Research Board, 1987).
⑤1953年までに、年間140億人まで利用者が減少した。(TRB、1987)