MTA considering ways to sustainably cool down scorching subway stations

The authority put out a “request for information” soliciting proposals from companies and organizations on innovative methods to cool down subway platforms, particularly those that are not carbon intensive like traditional air conditioning and thus, don’t contribute more to the problem in the first place.

Subway trains, of course, are air-conditioned, but the vast majority of stations are not, and the operations of subway trains can make a hot day even more oppressive as straphangers wait on platforms. Heat is generated outside trains by their air conditioning systems and when braking, creating stifling conditions on platforms during the hot summer months.

The lion’s share of stations, however, are decades or even a century old and were built in a way that can’t accommodate traditional cooling systems.

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