Currently, “cool pavement” is being tested in an NW Dallas neighborhood as an added effort to address the impacts of climate change and the urban heat island effect.
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.
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.