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Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.

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Hot Stops

“It’s like a sweatbox:” Houston bus stops reach dangerous temperatures this summer

Sara Willa Ernst / Katie Watkins

Posted on September 7, 2023 · An original study by Houston Public Media set out to answer whether bus stops ever reached dangerously hot temperatures and how effective bus shelters are at cooling riders during the hottest times of the day.

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Hot Stops: How Houston Bus Stops Get Dangerously Hot, a new podcast from Houston Public Media. Listen Here.

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The fate of bike sharing (Sept. 21, 2023)

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Posted on September 21, 2023 · On Thursday's show: Houston BCycle, the city’s bike share system, recently announced it was shutting down. But will that still happen now that the mayor says he will ask City Council to approve funding to save it?

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How METRO officials could plant a tree at every bus stop in Houston

Sara Willa Ernst / Katie Watkins

Posted on September 21, 2023 · A pilot study from Houston Public Media found that bus shelter shade was on average half as effective at cooling riders as tree shade -- a potential solution for METRO and the City of Houston as climate change makes the heat worse for transit riders. 

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Houston bike share program BCycle to shut down amid financial hardships

Ashley Brown

Posted on September 18, 2023 · Its annual ridership reached 300,000 trips and was not able to keep up with the operational costs. 

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I SEE U, Episode 95: Houston’s Emancipation Street Blues with Documentarian Drew Barnett-Hamilton

Eddie Robinson

Posted on September 15, 2023 · For a project originally intended to focus on Third Ward’s Eldorado Ballroom, producer Drew Barnett-Hamilton decided to dive deeper into the cultural history of the blues and capture Houston’s distinct role in defining this revolutionary sound in popular Black music on film.

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