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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: On The 20th Century, And The 22nd
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With 2018 upon upon us, let’s look 100 years back at 1918, and let’s make some guesses about the coming year.
In 1918, there were fewer than 250,000 vehicles on the road in Texas. No driver’s license was required, by the way. Given that there were only about 5 million of us back then, we had one vehicle for every 20 people. That made getting to the family reunion a tight squeeze.
Today there are 22 million vehicles on the road in Texas – sometimes I think all of them are in the I-35 corridor when I’m there. There are 28 million Te...