Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Oh. My. God.

This "dialog" between an engineer and a resident  is both fantastic and stomach clenching in its kafka-esqe premise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BUyWVg1xI

The cartooning is a little lame (it's some kind of automated text to cartoon program I think?)
but this just drives home the absurd logic and ridiculous premises behind the last 50 years of urban transportation planning.

2 comments:

  1. Oh my God indeed.
    If only this was fictional and I could laugh : (

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  2. This made me too vexed to watch the whole thing. I live on a narrow street that serves as a shortcut between commercial districts. The situation described here is far too familiar to be funny. Sadly, the logic displayed is spot-on to what comes out of our city's traffic planners' mouths on a regular basis.

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