Another picture
Here’s a before-and-after-and-after of the Catharijnesingel by @fietsprofessor@bird.makeup (from X, which I won’t link to).
I can’t believe someone would ctually do this, so awesome!
they just ctrl z
It must be great living in a sane country.
Found it on maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ivjnRK76Zgk9fnce7?g_st=ac
Adding to this.
Mapillary has a load of different perspective on the canal as well. The same bridge/canal but on OpenStreetMap.
Did they really build a fucking street on top of the river? Why would you do this?
In 1973 they replaced the canal with a road, since… cars go vroom vroom and need space, but this was reverted between 2010-2020.
Not uncommon. Cities grew and the aqueducts just went director to their river, si they suck and paving them was a good excuse to get rid of the sanitation problems they had while expanding car infrastructure. Cities today know better and built aqueducts that didn’t dump everything to the river.
Beautiful!
Was in Bayreuth a couple of weeks ago - they had pictures of the city centre 40-50 years ago hanging there. Couldn’t find the exact image on the internet but here is a postcard from around that time. This is how it looks today (you can see the fountain and the house with the steep roof on both images)
The last picture still looks quite shitty. Not even grass wants to live there and doesn’t look like a nice spot to chill.
Still, huge improvement in noise and stank.
The grass is left to do its thing along with the native flowers and plants so bees have a nice space to chill
It’s actually really lush all through Utrecht until you get into the old city which is mostly cobblestone
It’s in the middle of summer and 2022 was pretty dry.
Show me your water waste free summer grass.
