QUOTE (blackdog @ Apr 15 2013, 04:56 PM)
As car ownership was something like one car for every 5 households in the mid 60s it would certainly make a huge difference.
Though there were also less roads, and what roads there were had been cart tracks since the retreat of the ice age, with towns growing up around where those roads crossed and bridged rivers, and everyone with a car expecting to park right outside the high street butcher, baker, candlestick maker, etc - just like now really. So there were still traffic jams in the 60's.