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Cul-De-Sacs Make You Fat

Add another to our endless series of things that make you fat, many of which have to do with planning and design. The Harvard Business Review reports on a new study by Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia, that analyzed conditions in King County, Washington; he found that residents in neighbourhoods with grids and interconnected streets travelled 26% fewer miles by car than did those who lived in the neighbourhood of cul-de-sacs. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cul-De-Sacs Make You Fat

Officer Punches Teenager in Face Over Jaywalking

According to the SeattlePI, there is a pedestrian overpass over Seattle’s Martin Luther King Way. Looking at Google Street View , it looks like one of the usual ones put up to make pedestrians climb two flights of stairs so that cars don’t have to slow down. Nobody uses these things. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Officer Punches Teenager in Face Over Jaywalking