2024-07-21 13:56:43
In the forest of machines
As of: 3:56 pm
Great vacation! Traffic report on Brenner Road
Quelle: Goldmann / Picture Alliance
Only 60 in the San Bernardino route, the Brenner road will soon be one way: if you want to go on vacation, you have to be prepared for stop-and-go and snail speed. Time to think about what can happen in a traffic jam. An Argentine has a vision.
IIt will affect millions again during the holidays. Also those who are not there are just looking for the Roman land with their soul, gelato and Lambrusco available. Things will get really bad in 2024: Because some routes through Switzerland to Italy are significantly reduced due to bad weather (the San Bernadino route at 60 km/h!), the Federal Minister of Tourism recommends avoiding the country – your language. But all hell is already breaking loose on the Brenner, and things will get even worse early next year because parts of the traffic artery will be one way due to bridge work. We read that the innkeepers in South Tyrol care about the customers.
Of course, sweating is more in summer. The staff of what is probably the greatest traffic history ever written is still struggling with this. Julio Cortázar’s “Southern Highway”, created in the mid-1960s and the inspiration for Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Weekend”, is about such a great stop-and-go: the Argentine does not stop for hours, not for days. but for weeks Those who gathered to form a temporary area on the asphalt, “in the forest of machines … intended for fast driving,” were given the opportunity to move forward.
The big question when it comes to traffic jams is: “How long?” Here, however, it is clear that early in that moment has some meaning when all the wheels stop being: “If you want, you can watch it. look, but it was tied to his right wrist Time or the beep-beep from the radio seemed to measure something else, the time of those who are not fools of wanting to return to Paris on Sunday afternoon on the southern road” .
Just straight forward
Cortázar deliberately chose the word “idiocy”. A fool who chooses the path that everyone chooses, of course. The car, which has always guaranteed each trip (like cars or trains), also makes you crazy. In ancient Greece, “fools” were people who stayed out of the life of the polis.
Julio Cortázar (1914 – 1984)
Source: Eduardo Comesana / Getty Images
In Cortázar’s mega traffic jam, idiots become “politai” again, participants in public life. It was different from the one before you got into the car. Your own origins? It doesn’t matter! The special thing is the mobile car: the girl in the Dauphine makes a cold bond with the mechanic in the Peugeot 404, the “two little sisters” are shown by their 2CV more than praying the rosary, and the leader of the accidental food collectors. simply called Taunus, like his car.
Why did you stop? The failed emergency landing of a small plane is a myth that many have heard. Then everything decides itself. At first hesitant, then quickly, “not knowing exactly the reason for this speed, the reason for this race at night between strange cars, in which no one knows anything about the other and everyone just stares directly, directly direct”.
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