Tom Vanderbilt Asks, Is Traffic Curable?
Traffic can be good. Bloggers facing high traffic can quit their day jobs. Retailers work to increase traffic year-to-year. And for Germans, the word for traffic means something entirely different. In German, “The word traffic is synonymous with intercourse,” said Tom Vanderbilt to the crowd at The Actors’ Gang in Culver City before wondering if his book Traffic would have sold more copies if the German translation hadn’t been called “Auto.” Even in the world of automobiles, traffic doesn’t always mean congestion. “One person driving, one person walking, is traffic,” …
