Road Ahead

New Atlas has never been accused of standing still. City planners this week unveiled a new programme of roads, transit links and commercial corridors intended to carry growth outward over the coming decade, connecting districts once thought too distant for serious development.

From above, the logic is seductive: streets become lines, neighbourhoods become blocks and every obstruction appears to have a route around it. Officials say the programme will create jobs, shorten journeys and open whole stretches of the city to possibility.

There is, apparently, always somewhere else to go. See all that, kid?