Pensioners and dogs in particular are affected by the temperatures in built-up city centres. The Greens in Zwettl, who have been taking measurements there since last year, are critical of this. Doctor Günter Widhalm alarmed: “There are now more heat deaths than road deaths in Austria”. He gives tips on how to behave on hot days.
Summer is coming and with it not only the temperatures, but also the waves in the Waldviertel town of Zwettl. Because the newly created meeting zone in the city center from a few years ago is making the greens flare up: “Today in Austria we have more heat deaths than road deaths. And yet we have created this asphalt desert’, says doctor and green alderman Günter Widhalm about the ‘failed’ city centre.
Source: Krone
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