Reinventing the wheel
The Coventry Cathedral hierarchy emphasised that they wanted the service in January (marking the 100th anniversary of the motor car), to be even-handed about the advantages and disadvantages.
Nevertheless, it was, in the end, cars which processed down the aisle, not the road-accident victims, not the asthma sufferers, not the drivers bearing the scars of other people's road-rage, nor representatives of those whose homes are oppressed by the 24-hours-a-day roar and rumble of traffic.