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我总是喜欢「交通」这个词，关于它可以同时是封闭系统以及开源链接的两面，关于它远大于自身而存在的意义，当然也在于它从名词物件成为动词行为的可能性。
 
每每提及「交通」之时，我想说的不外乎是「该如何去往哪里」。从A至B点大约有十万零一种不同的方式，但总能被描述与简略为连接两点的线段。房间与房间，宫殿与宫殿间有十万零一种排列组合的方式，却总能被描述为「下一出口下一站」。
封闭的系统标志着种种的疆界，在步行范围内的、车程范围内的、通航与可转机的，以此制造可待开拓的幻觉。而系统总是闭环，因看见而存在的点被画入计划图之中，以失真的线段加以表述链接，无限成为有限。
最终我们哪里都可以抵达，最终我们用宇宙间最远的距离在喂养日益复杂的精致交通，最终我们回到了那个一开始让交通诞生的前提问题：
「你要去哪里？」

I’ve always had a liking for jiaotong, the word for transportation. It is Janus-faced, representing both a closed system and a crisscrossed (jiao) open (tong) network. It holds a significance far beyond itself and has the potential to move from being a noun to a verb, an action. 
Whenever I speak of transportation, I mean nothing more than: where and how do we go from here? From point A to point B, there exist approximately 100,001 different routes, which are invariably reduced to segments of lines connecting two endpoints. Between one room and another room, one palace and another palace, there exist 100,001 possible permutations, which are always condensed into one description: “the next exit, the next stop.”
 
A closed system defines a variety of boundaries—those within walking distance and driving range, those with airports and connecting flights, in order to manufacture the illusion of unexplored possibilities. But systems are always closed loops. On the blueprint, points exist because they are observed. Distorted lines indicate their links, and infinity is bound to finite lengths. 
In the end, we can reach anywhere. We nurture the increasingly complex and delicate system of transportation with the farthest distance ever measured in the universe, and we return to the fundamental question that gave rise to transportation: 
“Where are you going?”
 