ABSTRACT
This chapter uses two capita selecta. The first is on congestion, essentially a middle-class problem of too little car infrastructure at peak hours. Congestion is a function of the way one have organised modern risk societies and a function of the results of spatial and physical planning. And the second is on the shape of things to come. Non-car ownership is strongly concentrated in single households. Single parent families have higher rates on non-car ownership. Carless households in the Netherlands are mostly low income households and non-car ownership seems to be an urban phenomenon. The statistical profile of non-car households in the Netherlands: Many singles, especially urban singles, young or elderly, include a substantial group of older women, young couples and the oldest couples, and single parent families. The chapter looks at the social changes connected with frequent car use. It describes hypermobility, giving rise to permanent moves and to daily fluctuations in population composition of locations.
