Comments on: Response to OpEd: The Real Fast Track to Trouble http://www.clf.org/blog/healthy-communities/oped-the-real-fast-track-to-trouble/ For a thriving New England Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Mark Kaepplein http://www.clf.org/blog/healthy-communities/oped-the-real-fast-track-to-trouble/#comment-2244 Mark Kaepplein Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:59:24 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=10372#comment-2244 Where do I find accurate data on health effects? Is traffic congestion more or less unhealthy than moving vehicles? Isn’t there more particulate matter from brake, tire, and clutch dust from stop and go traffic than flowing traffic? Is the added stress and resulting depression, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, road rage etc. outweighed by getting a few more tenths of a percent to bicycle in pleasant weather? Does parking removal reduce air pollution by discouraging driving outweigh increases from drivers circling in search of available spots?

I hope public policy is being made based on sound science and sound economic studies, but I have trouble finding the studies. Where are they?

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