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Click and Clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

the Traffic Modeling Department here at Car Talk Plaza and we pose the question how bad are Boston

drivers really well I got this article here written you read the Boston Globe yes

I do you ever read Cheet Ramo I do. Is he a genius or what?

He has a good editor. Chet Raymo. He's good. In fact I have I have one of his

astronomy books which is very good. It says at the bottom is a professor of physics at Stonehill College, the author of several books on science and he writes this maybe daily, weekly occasional column for the local newspaper here.

A little rag the globe.

And this article is entitled,

Drivers Take Bite,

B-Y-T-E out of computer,

and he describes in great literary detail the computer model that

models traffic because the paper ran a story about a model developed by MIT and he says this isn't the first

to attempt to model Boston traffic on a computer

an earlier effort by researchers at Washington Institute of Technology was abandoned when their computer unexpectedly

blew up.

And he says, to find out what happened, I visited the defunct Project's ex-coordinator Crash Gordon at WIT.

And he describes what happened that they had this model that worked everywhere in the country and then they tried to apply the model to Boston.

He said, we sent observers to Boston to survey traffic patterns. We took psychological profiles of hundreds of typical

typical drivers. We created a mathematical model of the Boston Road system in the proposed Central

Artery third tunnel.

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