Where are the roads? There could easily be a 15 lane highway right there!
This is encouraging!
Hope Alexandria in Egypt can come to this realization some day
That might take some time, sorry!
Amazing place! I’m from there. The Rhein is amazing and it’s a great park right next to the old district.
are yall ever warry of france?
I love France they’re our EU brothers and sisters. Strong together.
Bro how can you be so cucked? I’m also from an EU country but I refuse to suck France’s cock
Are you French perchance? Because complaining about the French is just about the most French thing I can imagine.
Better dead than Fr*nch
Why do we keep getting rid of gray space…
It’s lovely there. Been to many a festival along the river
ITT: why the quotation marks?
No stroad
Every urban environment can be improved with the construction of a vague and ominous obelisk
I see a cylinder bit an obelisk.
Wasn’t it just moved underground?
Yes. It’s now the Rheinufertunnel.
great. put them all underground.
Then seal the ends.
I mean, leave ladders to escape. I don’t want to murder people. I’d just like to bury all the cars is all.
And in effect still murder people by lowering their standard of living.
Lowering the standard of living in that way is murder? That sounds a bit melodramatic. You’re probably even saving people since there are less traffic accidents.
Also speak for yourself. For me, not having to drive means a better quality of life.
Well, yeah. That’s why it would be nice to work on walkable infrastructure isn’t it? Because then we can reduce cars without lowering anyone’s quality of life. That’s the whole discussion.
Holy crap, dude. Obviously I’m not actually literally suggesting we should just bury all cars with the people still inside them. Long term cars are actually terrible for standard of living, but there needs to be a rational transition and effective mass transit in place before we start getting rid of cars. It is stupidly, ridiculously obvious that no one in their right mind would actually want to bury people alive for doing the only things that work with our current terrible transit system.
Maybe don’t just go around assuming everyone who says anything you don’t like is a monster in a medium famous for it’s lack of a serious tone?
Why is there open and close quotations? Isn’t this progress?
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…what?
What’s with that?
Because when the word “progress” is used, it is usually a loaded term with some specific connotations. The quotes indicate this is a reference to the word “progress”, not a use of the word “progress”, and it’s intended to draw your attention to the fact that this change, while clearly a positive and desirable one, contrasts strongly with what is usually meant when a person says it.
Nice explanation, jerkface
Am I crazy or was there a recent post that was basically these two images (different angle, I think) with the dates flipped?
Maybe you’re thinking of the Egypt Coastal Highway that they expanded over a beach?
I feel like I remember seeing a before and after but I can only find a good after pic now: https://i.redd.it/9mx2c8bgtb4b1.jpg
Bonus sad view of the traffic that now fills the new space: https://i.redd.it/fyqnzxeuk3ab1.jpg
Ew, that looks horrible.
Oh so that’s what it was! Thanks for this, I’m glad(well, technically not really lol) to see the actual thing I was thinking of.
why the quotation marks?
Maybe he meant the upper picture is “progress”
Rage bait
Maybe it’s an art installation titled “Progress”
Why the quotes? It looks much better.
I highly doubt OP knows what quotes mean here
“Sarcasm”
Bro where did u get that username
I uh… typed it in and it was available?
“your opinion”
“is shit”
Nature is healing
Reminds me of an old science fiction novel I read years ago. Teleportation had became common, so people no longer needed cars. The entire system of interstate highways was converted to long, narrow parks.
It’s so weird to me that for some people the only way to escape the car dependency is to invent fucking teleportation.
What’s the name of the novel? I kinda want to read that now because that sounds interesting.
You’ll be disappointed. It’s a very minor part of the plot, and the construction of the parks is only mentioned in passing. The novel was Ringworld by Larry Niven (written in 1970. Sexism ahoy!)
