“It’s like a sweat box,” “an easy bake oven,” “it’s like a desert.” This is how METRO riders described Houston bus stops to Sara Willa Ernst and Katie Watkins at the beginning of the summer. This left them wondering just how hot these bus stops can get. No data on the subject exists, so they armed themselves with sunscreen, baseball hats, and a high-tech thermometer and headed to the bus stop to get answers for themselves. What they found lined up with the stories they had heard: dangerously hot temperatures that experts found alarming. Their reporting led them to learn about riders getting sick from the heat and a public transit system ill-prepared to protect its riders from rising temperatures brought by climate change.
Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot
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“It’s like a sweat box,” “an easy bake oven,” “it’s like a desert.” This is how METRO riders described Houston bus stops to Sara Willa Ernst and Katie Watkins at the beginning of the summer. This left them wondering just how hot these bus stops can get. No data on the subject exists, so they armed themselves with sunscreen, baseball hats, and a high-tech thermometer and headed to the bus stop to get answers for themselves. What they found lined up with the stories they had heard: dangerously hot temperatures that experts found alarming. Their reporting led them to learn about riders getting sick from the heat and a public transit system ill-prepared to protect its riders from rising temperatures brought by climate change.
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Recent Episodes
September 28, 2023
Bonus Episode: Will something get done?
In this bonus episode, officials, local advocates and bus riders react to our investigation into the impact of extreme heat on METRO riders in Houston. We hear how one county precinct may use our findings to inform their tree planting strategy and bus shelter redesign in Southwest Houston.<p hidden="">RQorINeCN3g7wumm3vP3</p>
September 21, 2023
3: Trees and the Breeze
Tree shade was twice as effective at cooling riders as bus shelters. That’s what Sara and Katie observed while spending three weeks at Houston bus stops this summer and authoring a pilot study. The two reporters now dig into the pathway -- and the obstacles it's dotted with -- to planting those trees near bus stops and what to do when that simply isn’t an option.
September 14, 2023
2: A Science Experiment
<p><a href="https://cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/06111847/HotStops_banners-templateShow-Page-Banner-Desktop-2400x400-1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-461543" src="https://cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/06111847/HotStops_banners-templateShow-Page-Banner-Desktop-2400x400-1-1000x167.jpg" alt="HotStops_banners-templateShow-Page-Banner---Desktop---2400x400" width="1000" height="167" /></a></p><p>Sara and Katie visit two dozen bus stops across Houston with their high-tech equipment, garnering lots of strange looks and questions from METRO riders, passing cars and bus drivers. They let riders know the question on their minds: just how hot do bus stops get during the never-ending heatwave in Houston this summer? What they found were some extremely hot stops and a budding friendship between two coworkers. </p><p><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxFyEkFFt5N7zg0_xWvaoNOeYN6CZoKcVcpHLbUpAX_Pzjbw/viewform?embedded=true" width="640" height="2089" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">Loading…</iframe></p>
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