persist, but promotional language is used to assert the success of the new way,

While nearly all accidents could be explained by any of several faults, certain explanations were favored at the expense of others.

proposed that street uses that impeded automobiles were misuses of the street.

The street was understood not as a marketplace for transportation demands but as a public service, subject to official regulation (however imperfect) in the name of the public interest. In the 1920s, motordom proposed that street uses be treated like demands in a free market, then fought for this new model. The contest was fierce. It was a struggle

The automotive city was not simply the product of mass demand for automobiles. In 1920 there was a free market for automobiles but not for the use of city streets.

"Safety is essentially an advertising and selling proposition,"

"motordom." Often they presented their position clothed in a rhetoric of freedom.9

As long as automobiles were "pleasure cars" there were few grounds for tolerating the injury and death they caused.

Applied to traffic problems, the loss of street capacity to curb-parked cars became "the parking evil."