Roads, trains & automobiles, 1932

... approach, fruition or farewell. They said - quite rightly - that the road and the river were the two proper entries to any town, any town of tradition and lineage, any town that had grown up through the millioned intercourse of men. "But the railway did not do as much harm as the automobile has done . . . . [T]oday Saulieu is but an episode on one of the most obvious of modern trajectories, and ...