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The US, which is where Phoenix is. And yes, my point is that we (in the US) should have walkable (and bikeable) cities, like much of the rest of the world.


100 yards isn't a walkable distance in Phoenix in the summer.


Yes it is.


I wouldn't want any elderly person I knew walking that distance in any of the 3 weeks Phoenix typically spends over 100 degrees (even hotter over pavement).


100 yards is less than a block. Did you mean to say a longer distance?

And yeah, walkable cities includes infrastructure that does not magnify the sun at pedestrians (see: shade, plants)


You know what desert cultures around the world do to avoid this phenomenon? They just go outside in the mornings and evenings.




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