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"Opposer des «pro» à des «anti» voiture en ville n'a aucun sens. Mais il n'est pas interdit de s'interroger sur la priorité mise sur la «qualité de vie» dans les programmes des grandes municipalités, ni d'anticiper sur les effets pervers de la ville douce et sûre qu'elles nous promettent immanquablement."

"But already, several cities have removed or decommissioned existing highways, including Paris; Seoul, South Korea; Boston; and Portland, Ore. Last year, Rochester buried a portion of a downtown expressway known as the Inner Loop, a stretch of sunken highway the city's mayor likened to a "moat." It is being replaced with a boulevard on the same grade as the rest of the streetscape. And because of a confluence of factors, including the embrace of ride-hailing services like Uber and the rebirth of cities as places to live, work, raise families and retire to, advocates like Ms. Richards see an "incredible opportunity" to remove even more pavement. "When we put out a call last summer for freeways without a future, we got almost 75 recommendations," she said. "This can kick-start a conversation about the best way to spend infrastructure dollars.""

"Of all the mistakes made by city planners in the postwar era, the passion for highway construction has to be one of the most foolhardy. After the early success of systems like the autobahn and freeways, cities everywhere were carved up to make way for giant roads, crashing through neighbourhoods and creating opportunities for "comprehensive redevelopment". This was considered progress, a necessary part of entering the modern world. But some strange things happened - the most damning being that these new roads didn't reduce traffic at all. Instead, they induced demand, clogging up almost as quickly as they were built. As time went on, communities began rejecting the plans and fighting back against the bulldozers, halting development in its tracks and kickstarting the modern conservation movement. Finally, the knockout blow was the oil crisis of the 1970s which put an end to many big plans. Looking back, we can marvel at how outrageous some of these and later schemes were, and the traces they left behind."

"Un simple citadin prend la rocade, et embarque avec lui tout ce qui fait tourner les voitures dans la ville et autour de la ville. L'installation vidéo Perpetuum mobile (15min) s'intéresse aux boucles du périphérique toulousain : boucles électromagnétiques, régulations du poste de contrôle, flux du pétrole et particules fines… trois récits entrelacés qui relient tout conducteur aux mouvements du monde."