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[–] illi@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

I can't believe someone would ctually do this, so awesome!

[–] 1stQ@feddit.org 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 3 points 5 months ago

Adding to this.

Mapillary has a load of different perspective on the canal as well. The same bridge/canal but on OpenStreetMap.

[–] bratorange@feddit.org 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Did they really build a fucking street on top of the river? Why would you do this?

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In 1973 they replaced the canal with a road, since... cars go vroom vroom and need space, but this was reverted between 2010-2020.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

need space

Press X to Doubt

Fuck cars.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

More like crave and devour space like a cancerous growth

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

Pretty much, yes - the Stadsbuitengracht was a defensive moat originally, then they converted part of it into a motorway in the 70s.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 5 months ago

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.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago

It must be great living in a sane country.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago
[–] hannesh93@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

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)