We chose the "Create a system to amuse those caught in traffic." part.

It happened unexpectedly when Tac juggling seemed to amuse and entertain people caught in traffic.



With that knowledge in hand we came back the next day, this time armed with signs. Signs designed to amuse.
(this one is pretty long, none of us will be offended if you stop it early)


Although traffic did slow down to a pretty good clip, we quickly exhausted our options for entertaining this sort of traffic:


If you skipped through our experiments, here are the Arthur Murray dance steps version of our findings:
1) Truckers prefer Cake to Pie
2) More people will honk for "ǝpıɔıns" than for "suicide pie"
3) Even more people will honk for just plain ol' "honk for", but kind of half-heartedly.
4) "sex pie" is best at getting passengers to honk the horn against the will of their driver.

So with grander success in entertainment on our minds we sought out a place infested with more dire traffic needs.


We tried dancing to amuse them.


We even tried long form comedy with those caught in traffic.


Then, at the end of that last video there, we stumbled upon the idea that was the winner.


With that, we ran off into the night.



As of this writing, the sign is still up on the overpass and Tac has been fielding calls since. On Tuesday, a caller asked him to sing a song, and Tac performed a rousing rendition of "What is Love" until the caller hung up. Also of interest, Tac's message on his phone is a message redirecting the caller to Lincoln's phone. So even if Tac can't answer his phone, it redirects to Lincoln.

Also, we check on the sign every day, and intend to replace it if it ever gets taken down or becomes illegible.