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LA Uses Scare Tactics to Reduce Traffic, Discovers "Carmaheaven"
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Los Angeles has finally found a way to cut down traffic: terror. The announcement that ten miles of Interstate 405 would be shut down for 53 hours was accompanied by a public three month long awareness campaign to warn drivers to stay away from the major traffic artery. And so far (about halfway through the shut down), it looks like the threats of traffic even worse than usual have worked. Southern Californians are staying off the roads, and have avoid...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Taxis in New York City photo by Bonnie Hulkower
With more than 50% of the world's population currently living in cities and 70% of the world population expected to live in a city by 2050, neurologists are starting to map out the impact of living in cities on one's mental health. City living has many virtues that have been extolled on this 
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