At least the pigs won’t have shade
I hope their doors lock from the outside and they need emergency assistance to get out.
Nor anyone else :(
Also, trees help keep heat down in cities, which means cooler cities and people not having to run their AC as often.
I’m not saying it’s a good thing, I’m just saying if I don’t find some silver linings I’m going to fucking snap
Might be a good argument that NYC needs more parking. Here, they’ll be (legally) street-parked or pull over into a parking lot or something. If the police don’t have space to park, probably a good bet that everyone else is also short on parking.
Brooklyn might not have density too-high to permit for ground-level parking lots, but they can still have municipal multistory parking garages.
EDIT: Also, tangentially-related, and it may not be appropriate in NYC, where there are taller buildings that will block some of the light, but I do think that if the concern is shade, rather than decoration, as seems to be the case here:
Robert Lopez was walking home past the 83rd Precinct at 480 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on an 87-degree Wednesday when he was faced with a particularly vexing challenge on that block: making it to tree-lined Menahan Street without melting into a puddle of his own sweat.
…it might be worth considering whether sticking up solar canopies to provide shade is a good option. That’s one thing that I’ve seen done in California, where shade in a parking lot always makes a slot popular.
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The story here is about Brooklyn, and it looks like there’s a company, Brooklyn Solar Canopy Company, that does those installations. Means that one doesn’t need to deal with leaf litter and all that. I dunno how the overall costs compare, though.
More parking would incentivise driving, which is the exact opposite of what NYC should do/continue to do.
Solar canopies are interesting, but I’d personally prefer walking near trees than under some metal roof or however it works. I’d imagine the conopies being less useful in a place like nyc tho.
Trees are beautiful and life sustaining (air for us, but also food for bugs n stuff or birds idk). They can make us feel better… because nature. I think they help with air pollution too, better air is always better.
Cities never need more parking. The police need fewer fucking cars. And not just because of the illegal parking, either!
Oow, Parks throwing shade but not giving any. Burn.
