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How we best do this within the scope of health-care reform requires rigorous policy, psychology and marketing synergies. However, we also need to step outside that frame to realize the prescription we need centers on the nexus of land-use and transportation planning. We need a new kind of public option — one that allows us to live the healthy lifestyles we aspire to by designing our region with health in mind. We all want to live, work and play in safe places with easy access to transportation options, parks and open spaces and the markets, schools and amenities we all use.
We are, for now, literally stuck in traffic. A prominent study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine demonstrates that the more time we spend in our cars, the more we weigh. And the average Puget Sound resident spends nearly one 40-hour workweek a year simply stuck in traffic — so that’s a lot of weight.
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https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2011226980_guest02ayers.htmloldId.20100302155146416
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