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https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/novato-child-on-bike-struck-hit-run-driver-sought-22226109.php

Police in Novato are looking for a driver who struck an 8-year-old on a bicycle Friday, then paused briefly at the scene before fleeing. 

Just before 4 p.m. Friday, the Novato Police Department responded to a hit-and-run near the intersection of Vineyard Road and Sutro Avenue, a residential area about three miles from downtown Novato. 

An older woman driving a newer black Mercedes sedan reportedly struck the child, who suffered minor injuries. The driver “stopped briefly and acknowledged the child” before driving away westbound on Vineyard Road, leaving the child in the road, police said. A passerby helped the child and called 911. 

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

According to the UK Highway rules, motorists “must not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a solid white line during its times of operation” or block a bike lane marked by a broken white line “unless it is unavoidable”.

Drivers are also told that they should give way to cyclists using the bike lane and wait for a “safe gap in the flow of cyclists” before crossing the infrastructure.

However, just as its robo-taxis begin driving autonomously in the UK for the first time, cycling campaigners in the US have claimed that Waymo has told them that the cars are told to pull into cycle lanes to pick up and drop off passengers.

“… girls and women suffer from depression and anxiety disorders at twice the rate of boys and men. And it might have a lot to do with hormones,” says Kristina M. Deligiannidis, MD, director of women’s behavioral health at Zucker Hillside Hospital.

Before puberty, girls and boys have similar rates of anxiety and depression. During adolescence, however, the rates of anxiety and depression double for girls compared to boys—and later rise further for women around menopause.”

https://www.tcacounseling.com/why-depression-is-rising-among-millennial-women-and-how-counseling-can-help/

https://www.businessinsider.com/pay-gap-worse-gen-z-women-because-anxious-nyu-proffesor-2023-1

https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/articles/anxiety-depression

https://www.powderlife.com/blog/is-the-hokkaido-bullet-train-on-the-chopping-block/

Citing a projected budget increase of up to JPY1.2 trillion (US$7.51 billion), the Ministry of Finance has estimated that the Hokkaido Shinkansen (bullet train) extension project may not be financially viable.

 

This puts the future of the 212 km bullet train line extension, running from the current terminus of Hakodate to Sapporo, in doubt.

The extension, which was originally scheduled to open during fiscal year 2030, has been plagued by rising material costs, labour shortages and construction issues, with its most current projected opening in early 2039.

Due to these issues, the Ministry of Finance has assessed that the cost-effectiveness ratio for the project has dropped from 0.9 to 0.6, falling into the range of projects that are often canceled.