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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's a before-and-after-and-after of the Catharijnesingel by @fietsprofessor@bird.makeup (from X, which I won't link to).

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Now I understand! So the canal was covered up with a highway, water was just going beneath it (Edit: I read it appears to have been drained when the highway was constructed). Removing the highway just uncapped it again.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

they just ctrl z

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool comparison, but it's worth pointing out that the second picture is taken from the bridge that you can see in the first picture. So those big buildings you see on the left in the first picture didn't just disappear, they're just moved out of the shot.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the problem are the buildings but the car infrastructure.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

That's why I said it's still a cool comparison. But cropping out the buildings and focusing more on the trees exaggerates the change a bit and makes it seem as if the entire area has been given back to the wilderness.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

It must be great living in a sane country.

[–] 1stQ 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 3 points 2 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 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)

no, they built a canal later

[–] 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.

[–] hannesh93 6 points 2 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)

[–] DmMacniel 5 points 2 months ago
[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's literally unbelievable

[–] Homescool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The paradox that arises from the tension between the literal truth of something and the disbelief it inspires compels me to contemplate the consequences of having to wonder what yesterday's prediction about tomorrow will be.