Juan Reyes, left, and Devin Vestal apply a cool pavement material to a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles. City officials hope the pavement will help cool the city and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The Bureau of Street Services began spreading so-called cool pavement in the summer of 2015, starting with a parking lot at the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino. Over the last two years, crews have installed it on 15 residential blocks scattered from Northridge to Harbor City. Extreme heat is one of climate change’s most life-threatening impacts, and it already causes more deaths in the United States each year than floods, storms and lightning combined. Climate change compounds those risks through what’s known as thein which the built environment of cities makes them hotter than their rural surroundings.
Jonathan Parfrey, executive director of the nonprofit Climate Resolve, uses an infrared thermometer to measure the surface temperature of traditional asphalt, left, and asphalt treated with a reflective cool-pavement coating, right. Yet even with the expansion, the scale of L.A.’s cool-pavement project is relatively small. The 1,500 blocks the mayor wants to convert represent only about 2% of the approximately 70,000 city blocks in Los Angeles.
Great to see you are wasting gas tax money. More emissions are wasted sitting in traffic. Save the money and send the illegals back.
LA always making “plans” like they’re so ahead of the curve even tho said plans are always abandoned midway through
Can't even fix the roads in this shithole town. Paint over the sidewalk tent cities or something.
The cool pavement in rain makes cars more likely to skid when stopping. But hey climate change is more important than human life.
If this new cool pavement gets graffitied will the tagger be changed with an environmental crime?
Pissing into the wind. Better idea: Paint the streets GREEN where dormant cars are currently parked, plant trees on sidewalk (urban canopy!) and install a concrete curb/planter with hedgerows on the side adjacent to vehicle traffic. Design for walking/biking I/O CO2 & pollution.
IPCC should block these measures as heat island effects will be decreased and not add to their scaremongering
Great idea and plant a few trees also 👏👏👏
Anyone wanting to sell the Brooklyn bridge come to Los Angeles they will buy it
Now all the homeless people will be able to walk around barefoot in the summer. They’ll appreciate it more than the CA taxpayer.
Squandering cash taken from makers.
LA just spent $619 million to combat homelessness that had 'little to no effect.' Now this? How in the world do the taxpayers accept this level of nonsense
BGSIBMOR I am sure those who are taxed into homelessness to pay for this green nonsense will be happy sleeping on the “cool” concrete knowing they are fighting the myth of global warming.
Right now the sidewalks are already covered by the homeless
And in 5 years, we will learn that the coating is damaging to the environment, causes cancer, and is killing wildlife. Anyone else ever notice that environmentalists trying to 'fix' the environment almost always end up destroying it? Stop fucking with nature.
L.A. is full of environmentalists, yet there is litter everywhere. In the streets, along the freeways and waterways. But let’s leave the litter and pour concrete, it’s environmentally friendly...right. Clean up the trash.
Try “not killing” new reservoir projects over silly shit and you won’t need the coating. You can use water misters on all of the roads and sidewalks.