People have become so habituated to using the car for everything that it would never occur to them to unfurl their legs and see what those lower limbs can do. It is worth noting that 93 percent of all trips outside the property in the United States now involve the use of a car.
As with most old New England towns designed for another age of transportation, Hanover isn't a particularly obliging place for cars. Nearly any visit to town by automobile will be characterized by a long and exasperating hunt for a parking place.
To alleviate this, the local authorities are forever widening roads to speed traffic flow and building new parking lots -- Dartmouth recently tore down an unexceptional old hospital building in order to insert into the heart of the campus a couple of more acres of numbingly soulless parking lot -- failing to understand that it is the absence of these features that makes the town desirable in the first place.