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Utrecht, Netherlands, now and then (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

need space

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Fuck cars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

More like crave and devour space like a cancerous growth

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

no, they built a canal later

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] TheBat 2 points 1 month ago

I canal believe they did that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.