traffic-directors

Updated: May 14, 2025

Shouts, excited questions; the wail of children almost trampled under foot; the screams of women. And over it all, the electrically magnified voice of the traffic director-general in the peak of the main tower roaring his orders to the crowd. It was a panic until the traffic-directors descended upon us. We were pushed up on the moving sidewalks.

Ray Cummings - Tarrano the Conqueror