The new technology escalated people's expectations and changed their perception of free time. A new technology supposed to be time saving and helpful to live effortless life, yet the technology has taken unexpected turn. "Of course, like most "time saving" technologies, mechanized transit more often produces changes expectations than free time; and modern Americans have significantly less time than they did years decades ago" (442). The technology augments such as factories, trains, and cars have taken place of body used. Cars and trains have taken place instead to walking, and establishment of factories have elevated the production. Besides, improvement in all mechanical areas still have not decrease people's working hours, actually it trapped people into its exceeding attraction.
The transportation made walking ineffective even with reachable distance, but the sub-urbanization of the American mind has made walking increasingly rare even when it is effective. People routinely take ride on bus or drive a car for very short distances that could have accomplished by walking. " People have a kind of mental radius of how far they are willing to go on foot that seems to shrinking" (443). In other words, people have negative interpretation on their minds about walking. For instance, in downtown, it takes a streetcar to drive half an hour to reach the destination; the driver could have covered the same destination by walking in half of that time.
In twentieth-century, cars made it possible for workers to commute in farther distance than before: such as work, stores, public transit, schools, and social events. ""Offices are kept separate from retailing. The housing is frequently divided into mutually excusive tracts with further subdivision by economic status"" (437). In twentieth-century, business are territorial and further division takes place as the financial status increased. Therefore, cars took the place of walking in working class people.
