2 June

There are 65 million kilometres of roads in the world. Laid end--to-end, that's enough to circle the planet more than 1600 times. For most of those journeys we end the day exactly where we started, it's a commute, not a trip. Nothing removes power from ordinary people more than making them mobile. 'Move to where the jobs are'. Roads are mostly about uprooting people from their homes, their land, which then becomes expendable. Why the landscape is increasingly empty, and we live in mega-cities of commerce. The 'Economy'.