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Yeah, ppl on the ring road of Amsterdam live 10 years shorter afaik, for instance

• dgut 3y ago
  Source? As a counter anecdote: Madrid, where most people live near traffic, has the highest life expectancy in the EU at 85.4 years.
  • boesboes 3y ago
    I had to look it up, i was indeed mistaken. It's 79 days on average. The road is called the A10, so I guess I mixed that up :) Source, in dutch: https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-dagen-korter-door-snelheidsverhoging~ab076ce0/ https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-da...
  • egman_ekki 3y ago
    maybe there are other factors at play here; who knows how long would they live if they didn't live near traffic.
  • mapmap 3y ago
    What are they doing differently to get this average?
• Scoundreller 3y ago
  Poor people live next to highways? Or when we build the highway, we don’t raze the homes of the elite/wealthy/well-connected to do it, we do it in “bad neighbourhoods” Or indirect effects: factories move/build next to the new highway (ease of moving materials+density of employees+ease of commuting because of the highway), contaminating the neighbourhood.