When researchers analyzed brain scans, health records of hundreds of people at MA Gen Hospital they made stunning discovery: Those who lived in areas w high levels of transportation noise were more likely to have highly activated #amygdalas, #arterial #inflammation & w/in 5 yrs, major #cardiac events. In fact, noise may #trigger immediate #HeartAttacks: Higher levels of #aircraft #noise exposure in 2 hrs preceding nighttime deaths have been tied to heartrelated #mortality https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/health/noise-exposure-health-impacts.html

The freeway was born in L.A. But it might not always be free to drive on https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-30/congestion-pricing-study-la-drivers-freeways-405-10-101

#congestionpricing: The #transit agency has zeroed in on three locations for a possible test program: a nearly 16-mile stretch of the 10 #Freeway between downtown and Santa Monica, #arterial streets and freeways around downtown and the canyon streets and freeways that connect the San Fernando Valley to the L.A. Basin.

Can #Tokyo’s charms be #replicated elsewhere? | The Economist

The real Tokyo, as any #denizen of the world’s most #populous #metropolis knows, is found in the smallest of #spaces. #Japan’s #capital is not a #city of grand #arterial #boulevards. Its lifeblood flows instead through tangles of narrow #alleys, up the #stairs of slim #buildings and into tiny #shops and cramped #eateries.

https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/11/24/can-tokyos-charms-be-replicated-elsewhere

#DC #VisionZero plan has acknowledged not only that traffic deaths have gone up, not down, since implementation but has also identified that #Arterial roads connecting highways to normal city streets while the minority of mileage are the majority of accidents and deaths. A new charge to focus on protected #Infrastructure and #TrafficSafety could save hundreds if not thousands of lives: https://ggwash.org/view/87417/go-big-or-go-home-a-real-safety-vision-for-dcs-deadliest-streets:

Inicialmente diagnosticado com #arterite #takayasu agora o diagnóstico aponta para #mediolise #arterial segmentar. Procuro recomendações para 2° opinião antes de aceitar cirurgia arriscada. Alguém me recomenda #cirurgiao #vascular em Portugal?