“Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles
create remoteness which they alone can shrink.
They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few.
A new dirt road through the wilderness
brings the city within view, but not within reach,
of most Brazilian subsistence farmers.
The new expressway expands Chicago,
but it sucks those who are well-wheeled
away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.”
~
Ivan Illich