By 1981, there will be nearly 225,000 vehicles in Greater Winnipeg — or three times the present number.

These figures were published in the Wilbur Smith traffic report, and reprinted in the Norman Wilson subway report.

The traffic report used the figures to show the need for greatly improved traffic systems, including a large network of expressways.

The subway report, however, says that any solution to the motor vehicle problem only brings more vehicles into use. "The private motor vehicle cannot adequately serve the heavily concentrated business centres of metropolitan cities, but it can, if permitted, stifle them with street congestion, and scar them irretrievably with car parking facilities."