ABSTRACT Timing urban traffic is moral work. In this paper, I show how the moral work that goes into timing traffic lights addresses both industrial, civic, and domestic worth in ways that cut generalization short. Relying upon ethnographic fieldwork, this paper focuses on how municipal traffic engineering maintains traffic lights and handles complaints about them. Steeped in moral ambiguity, the paper argues, municipal traffic engineering resorts to singularizing complaints, truncating worth, and working with careful dedication from one contestable compromise to the next. With this argument, the paper contributes to an understanding of the temporal and moral orderings at stake in adjusting and justifying urban mobilities.

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定时交通的道德工作：“有限的洞察力”和在城市交通管理中的价值被截断

摘要确定城市交通时间是道德工作。在本文中，我将说明在交通信号灯定时进行的道德工作如何以缩短概括性的方式解决工业，公民和家庭的价值。依靠人种志田野调查，本文重点介绍市政交通工程如何维护交通信号灯并处理有关交通信号灯的投诉。该论文认为，由于道德上的模棱两可，市政交通工程部门采取了将投诉单一化，削减价值的方式，并谨慎地致力于从一个可争用的折衷方案到下一个折衷方案。以此观点为基础，本文有助于对调整和证明城市交通合理化的时间和道德秩序的理解。