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Hello, neighbor!
Summer is already arriving, in the last days Lisbon was dress up for the Santos Populares festivities, and the smell of sardines still fills the streets. Typical of this time is the heat, but sometimes it can be too much…
How have you been protecting yourself from the heat? At home? In the gardens? With swims in the sea or in the swimming pool? Lisbon is a hot city – in many ways… And it’s getting warmer. So it would be nice to have places where we could refresh ourselves.
It was this question (and the sweat of a walk in the sun) that led data scientist, Manuel Banza, to collect data and to create an interactive map with the places that need to be climate shelters in Lisbon.
These shelters are basically places where people can escape from the heat. There are six areas of the city that need improvement: Baixa (downtown), Alto de São João and Morais Soares Street, Chelas, Rego Neighborhood, Parque das Nações and Ajuda.
This data scientist has also created an interactive map, where the intensity of the heat island effect at dusk is visible, as well as the location of drinking fountains, green spaces, lakes, fountains, libraries or municipal swimming pools.
In this text you can see how difficult it is to find shade in Lisbon, the effect of the breeze and how green spaces are not synonymous with coolness:
With hot or cold weather, we have to walk around the city. But this task is not always easy. How many times have you run in a crosswalk because the light quickly turned red?
This question led the Lisboa Possível movement to question the municipality about the timing of traffic lights and they filed a complaint about a crosswalk on Avenida Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro – which was given more time to cross.
But what was happening in Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro Avenue is a problem that spreads all over the city and that is, therefore, related to safety on the streets, with the number of accidents.
In this text you can learn more about the insecurity of crosswalks in Lisbon and how you can complain to the Lisbon City Hall. A complaint from Lisboa Possível movement made a crosswalk safer. How many more crosswalks can we make safer? It’s up to us!
Hope you have a nice week!
-Daniela Oliveira, journalist
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