How Traffic Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Whether you've been stuck in a traffic jam or forced to merge and avoid road construction, everyone's had a few bad experiences with traffic. But how does traffic actually work? In this episode, Chuck and Josh take a look at traffic waves (and bubbles).

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark with me as Charles Precious Bryant.
0:46.2	How you doing?
0:47.0	Precious?
0:47.8	This is the podcast based on the novel Push by Sapphire.
0:51.1	Yeah, that is absolutely right.
0:53.3	Word for word, right?
0:54.3	Jerry just got mad because you did a spoiler for Precious.
0:59.7	I'm known for spoilers, aren't I?
1:01.3	Yeah, at least two.
1:02.3	Two?
1:03.3	It was one home.
1:04.3	No, there was six feet under and there was another one I spoiled too, wasn't there?
1:09.7	Yeah, there was one you spoiled.
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