When he takes his father's precious new car out, eleven-year-old Henry causes a traffic jam that is huge even by twenty-first century southern California standards.
Interweaves the seventeen- and twenty-five-year-old voices of a runaway who comes to a life-changing realization in an all-day Los Angeles traffic jam and uses the experience eight years later as material for a one-woman show.
Seventeen-year-old Del, tired of being bounced between foster homes, is thwarted in her decision to run away by an all-day Los Angeles traffic jam, which serves as the basis of the one-woman show she writes and performs eight years later.
Explores problems related to dependence on cars; looks at ways of reducing that dependence, including city planning and mass transit; and discusses how cities around the world are addressing gridlock, pollution, and other transportation problems.
Best friends Agatha May Walker and Eulalie Scruggs, who live on opposite sides of busy Rushmore Boulevard, inspire their neighbors to come together and make their street a much more pleasant place.
Describes the hustle and bustle as people rush to work in the morning and home again at night, taking trolleys, subways, bikes, ferries, vans, and more.
