Tim Ellis 🦝 on Nostr: There is a big debate on Reddit about whether "it's slowed down the traffic on our ...

There is a big debate on Reddit about whether "it's slowed down the traffic on our road" in this Calvin & Hobbes strip means cars are slowing down to gawk or there are fewer cars on the road because they're avoiding the street. https://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/197luhq/im_perplexed/

Am I going crazy here or does only the first one make any sense? Nobody would say "slowed down the traffic" to mean fewer cars on a residential street, right? It's obviously that cars are slowing down… right?