I just got back from a grocery run, and holy crap. The difference in temperature between a greenway in the woods and a sidewalk next to a multilane road is mindboggling. The greenway was almost pleasant. The road felt more like the surface of the sun.
It's almost* as if continuing to coddle drivers by building out more and more roads is actually contributing to the global heat wave we're living in right now. [*sarcasm]
@DrTCombs Not completely sure if this is sarcasm, it sounds like it could and couldn't be, but if not, yes concrete and assfalt store and reflect heat, creating a low to the ground heat haze. This is why places have mandated medians in parking lots and trees on the side of roads, because they saw in places like Dallas what happens if you don't I suspect. Plus the people falling on the concrete in Arizona and dying because they were literally burned by the concrete.
