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[–] bratorange 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 28 points 2 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 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

need space

Press X to Doubt

Fuck cars.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

More like crave and devour space like a cancerous growth

[–] rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 10 points 2 months ago

There was water first, then they built a road, then they restored the water.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I canal believe they did that

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 2 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 2 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.