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Video Clip Synopsis:
No matter how well our roads are monitored, the human factor is always unpredictable. What happens when a semi-trailer runs out of fuel on the freeway?
Duration:
1min 34sec
How To Cause A Traffic Jam is an excerpt from the film Wrong Way Go Back (26mins), an episode of the series Auto Stories (4 x 26 mins), produced in 1999.
Wrong Way Go Back: With one car on our roads for nearly every man, woman and child in this country, solving traffic problems is a never-ending nightmare. Yet it’s just another day at work for the road crews and traffic controllers who monitor Melbourne’s roads via a vast system of cameras. Together they deal with one emergency after another in a vain attempt to keep the freeways flowing. Meanwhile, at Knox City Council a debate rages. Will the council recommend to State Government that further extensions to the current freeway system should cut through the suburb? But at what cost to the environment? Engineers and environmentalists compete to shape the transport options. But who will council support? The outcome surprises everyone.
Auto Stories: A character-driven series that explores themes of vanity, responsibility, dependence, pride, obsession, love and death through our relationship to the car. In Australia there is a car for nearly every man, woman and child, causing traffic congestion, accidents and environmental nightmares. No one is immune from the pleasures and dangers of the car. Everyone has an auto story to tell.
Auto Stories is a Film Australia National Interest Program in association with December Films Pty Ltd. Produced with the assistance of Cinemedia's Film Victoria and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Curriculum Focus: English
Year: 11-12
Theme: Environment & Work
Cars; Public transport; Cities; Individual versus public rights; Public transport; Privacy versus efficient control
ACT: | English course framework (11-12) — responding critically and analytically to texts |
NSW: | English Stage 6: Close study of text, Texts and society |
NT: | English Stage 1 Texts and contexts |
Qld: | English senior syllabus: Texts in their contexts; textual features; Constructedness of texts |
SA: | English Stage 1 Texts and contexts |
Tas: | Senior Secondary English: Ideas and issues strand; Texts and contexts strand; Applications strand |
Vic: | English Language: Unit 3 — Language in society; Unit 4 — Language in use |
WA: | English Year 11 — Print texts (non fiction), Non-print texts English Year 12 — Print texts (non-fiction), Non-print texts |
The Monash Freeway brings a huge volume of traffic into Melbourne from the south-eastern suburbs each weekday morning. Freeways like the Monash Freeway are major capital works that are costly but dramatically improve traffic flow. Traffic controllers monitor the freeways for accidents and problems that occur on a regular basis. They watch the roads with the assistance of cameras. Traffic controllers also fly in helicopters to monitor traffic congestion. They observe the traffic conditions and their reports are heard on radio stations warning motorists to expect delays or to take alternative routes. Emergency service drivers are on call for breakdowns and accidents. Emergency phones to call for help are at regular points along the freeway.
English Year 9-10, SOSE/HSIE Year 11-12, English Year 11-12