As you may know, Knox Street was identified on the Dallas Complete Streets plan as a road suitable for being, ahem, "completed." The gist of a complete street is that it isn't just for cars, but the infrastructure is essentially balanced for all forms of transportation.
Though Knox is not 2 day diet well-served by mass transit, to complete it without significant changes to the public transportation system, means a road diet. In this case, the road diet took a four lane road and reduced it to two travel lanes in each direction and a shared center turn lane. The leftover space from the removal of the fourth lane became a two-way cycle track, effectively extending the Katy Trail onto Knox as "an urban detour."
During the "road diet," traffic predictably slowed all along Knox where it was installed.
Throughout the country, similar road diets such as this one have proved to effectively calm traffic, improve safety, and actually move MORE vehicles with no evidence of any negative economic impact. (Usually there is economic improvement, but these numbers are harder to come by. This is why I often point out that traffic isn't necessarily a bad thing. Places need energy. But to create a center of gravity that energy must be "condensed into a slow vibration," to paraphrase from physics.)
For pregnant women, diets rich in fish can offer their babies protection against developing behaviors associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, a new study finds. Yet for most Americans, fish consumption is the leading source of exposure to mercury — a potent neurotoxic pollutant that has been linked to a host of health problems, including delays in neural development.
Data from the new study, published online October 8 in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, demonstrate that low-mercury diets and regular fish consumption are not mutually exclusive, says epidemiologist and study leader Susan Korrick of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “It really depends on the type of fish that you’re eating,” she says. In fact, some study participants had been eating more than two servings of fish weekly yet accumulated relatively little mercury.
As part of a long-running study of children born during the 1990s in New Bedford, Mass., 515 women who had Japan Hokkaido Pill just given birth completed a dietary survey. About 420 also provided samples of their hair for mercury testing. About eight years later, Korrick’s team administered a battery of IQ and other tests to assess behaviors associated with ADHD in the children.