US urban designers continue to burn mountains of money doing literally anything to marginally offset the problems caused by car dependency except creating better cities that aren’t dependent on cars. More at 11.
At least they’re not completely ignoring the problem I guess, but it would be nice for them to take a more holistic approach to transport design. Currently it’s patently obvious that considerations are barely made for anything beyond single person passenger transport.
while this is completely true in a lot of places, i also have never heard of this specific technology, which could help the ever increasing heat problem elsewhere if used in combination with sane urban planning, especially other improvements in regards to heat.
At a stated $330,000 per mile, there are almost assuredly better measures than this dollar for dollar in most places. This makes sense in a city as comically car-dependent as Dallas and in such a hot climate, but realistically, that $330,000 could be better spent elsewhere toward fighting temperatures if a city actually wanted to do something about city temperatures and global warming as a whole.
It’s just that those things would involve actually improving the city to the detriment of NIMBY drivers.
Heck, even green spaces lower overall temperatures.
Turning current cities into non-car cities is a decades long process. These things solve immediate problems.
Apples to oranges. Unless you rather have people suffer until the cities are fixed.
