Traffic Life : Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies
Edited by Stephan Wehner
An Anthology
 
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170 Boneshaker abruptly vanished. The road was awash with bicycles. Hun- dreds and hundreds of 'em: 'The mayor is thinking of a congestion charge.' I was almost but not quite speechless. 'This is impossi- ble. How...?' The Future smiled enigmatically, like the Mona Lisa. 'I can't tell you that. You'll have to figure it out for your- selves.' He increased his pace and the two of them slipped away, parting a sea of cheery bells.
  
Traffic Zoology Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming Abstract. There is a secret zoo that runs encaged along the roads. They are liquid, semi-visible goliaths that rage through the streams and chunks of ordinary traffic, with the effer- vescent tendrils of mile-long tails whipping behind them like Chinese dragons. Though composed of hundreds of pounds of steel, glass and plastic, they are able to pass through solid objects. They are bound by the laws of the highway, but not by any conventional notion of time or space. They are Aggregate Traffic Animals: a menagerie of emer- gent beasts drawn from the interacting behaviours of many individual human beings driving many individual cars with many individual goals, their collective activity giving rise to something with greater presence, power and purpose than the sum of its constituents. They take on a host of different forms, each to serve a different end. They are real, and they drive among us. An earlier version of this article appeared on Rusty Foster's collab- orative media website at http://www.kuro5hin.org under the pen-name CheeseburgerBrown.

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