How Phoenix’s ‘Invisible’ Parking Lots Are Making Its Heat Problems Worse
"The asphalt beneath your feet absorbs approximately 95 percent of the solar radiation hitting it. Its surface temperature is somewhere between 150 and 170 degrees Fahrenheit...roads and parking lots glowing between 120 and 160 degrees across the metro. The cars sitting in those lots are ovens. The air rising off the pavement is a wall."
How Phoenix's 'Invisible' Parking Lots Are Making Its Heat Problems Worse — Streetsblog USA
Phoenix: A Review
"Phoenix, Arizona is sometimes derided as a suburban hellscape. Just an endless sea of sprawl that reaches for miles in all directions, sucking up the few resources that surround it, resulting in never ending conversations around drought and water supply. Yet, while it receives harsh critiques, many of which are warranted, there are signs that things are changing and a more sustainable version of the Valley may be on its way."
The Valley of the Sun - A Land of (Sub)Urban Extremes — Thomas Bardenett
Valley Metro opens new service line in northwest Phoenix
"The project showcases the first elevated rail station in the city with a bridge going over Interstate 17.
It will run west from 19th and Dunlap avenues and curve north on 25th Avenue, then west on Mountain View Road to where the old Metrocenter Mall is. Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego says the light rail will bring in new investments."
No felony charges to be filed against driver who killed two cyclists
"Goodyear police say Pedro Quintana-Lujan, 26, was driving a pickup truck hauling a trailer on Feb. 25 when the vehicle crashed into a group of bicyclists on the Cotton Lane Bridge...one bicyclist died at the scene and another died at a hospital. Nearly everyone in the 20-person cycling group was injured."
County attorney kicks case against driver in deadly bicyclists crash to city court