Mode of transport carries its own motor. As of 2002, there were 591 million automobiles worldwide. Other users of roads include motorcars, motorcycles, buses, trucks, bicycles and pedestrians, and special provisions are sometimes made for each of these. For example, the use of bus lanes give priority for public transport, and cycle lanes provide special areas of road for bicycles to use. Motorcars offer high flexibility, but are deemed with high energy and area use, and the main source of noise and air pollution in cities; buses allow for more efficient travel at the cost of reduced flexibility. Road transport by truck is
The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South is a 1912 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Dan Norton, a Confederate veteran, Ku Klux Klan leader and newspaper publisher, hires a quadroon called Cleo Peeler as a caretaker for his son and his ailing wife, Jean Norton, a descendant of Southern planters. They sleep together and have a daughter, whom he sends to an orphanage. Shortly after, Cleo attempts to blackmail him to regain her position as caretaker. Norton runs for office as a pro-segregation politician. Meanwhile, his son