As temperatures rise, bus stops serve as shelter from the sun.
spends 20 to 30 minutes each day waiting for the bus near the UT campus. That time outside has taken a toll on his body, as he had two heat strokes in June."I sat down. I ate a sandwich. I drank some water. Then next thing you know, [when] I stood up, I couldn't talk, I couldn't see, I couldn't even walk," he said of the first episode."I felt like I was drunk."on record in Austin, and the 100-degree days keep piling up.
in an email. Cap Metro has upgraded 175 bus stops with new silver cantilever shelters that provide more shade; it plans to deploy another 500 in the next five years. Cole added that"customer comfort and safety in all weather" will be a key consideration for how rail stations are designed asCap Metro is hardly to blame for the rising temperatures in the city.
"What I'm positing is [that] the majority of individuals who are using public buses in Austin may not have another transit mode available to them," Lanza said, adding that heat tends to be even more extreme in low-income neighborhoods due to disinvestment in public spaces that can be traced back to redlining policies a century ago.
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