No quotes needed this is literally progress
Yes. It’s progress indeed.
Why scare quotes? I lived in Düsseldorf back in '90 (go alts - that was the name of my school team, and yes it was sponsored by Alt bier 🍺... different times), it's always been one of Germany's more clean cut, upmarket cities, but this picture makes me want to go back and check it out again.
Then again, I'm a queer transfem and I'm in BERLIN, THE QUEER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Düsseldorf is in the last instance just meh.
Yes progress! Using the quotes there make it seem like you disagree that this is progress, which I will choose to believe you didn't mean it like that.
I have seen a few pictures like this from around the world. It's pretty encouraging
Yes. Yes it is.
Look at all the people enjoying the waterfront now. It's a beautiful sight to see.
That place found its humanity again.
Nature is healing
Not sure why the quotes exist, but this is beautiful to see.
Better late than never, and I hope we can take these examples to other car-centric places to fix.
It looks startlingly nice to me. I see no problem
My hometown. Looks better than the old photos ;) Come visit us!
Portland, Oregon did it first. And they just got rid of the freeway instead of burying it.
I totally puked a litre of concentrated grape juice in that hot park in 1999.
Guess whose German wasn’t nearly as awesome as they thought it was…
Always love more greenery .
Where are the roads? There could easily be a 15 lane highway right there!
Seattle did the same thing. So much better.
Scheinbar passiert doch etwas in unseren Städten. 😊
This is encouraging!
I can’t wait to see Seattle’s viaduct on here when the full parks, sidewalks, and bike lanes get finished!
I think we need a middle-vote button.
I like 2019 more.
Looks amazing to me
Why do we keep getting rid of gray space...
At first I read the comments and was appalled, then I realized I automatically assumed the shittier picture was the new one. I'm assuming it's because I've never seen it go this direction before.
Put some of the trees on the right to the left.
It’s lovely there. Been to many a festival along the river
Wow that's amazing. Green spaces are so important to our mental health and happiness. Really great to see this.
Lima absolutely needs to do this.
Wish we could do this in my town, miles of undeveloped lakefront access blocked by an 8 lane highway.. it sucks.
The Gardiner in Toronto desperately needs to be pulled down (before people die) and replaced with tunnels.
The viaduct in Vancouver is being torn down but I don't think they plan to build a tunnel. It's the fastest way into downtown from East Van.
The difference between these inevitable projects and Dusseldorf is that property value in Canadian cities is so insane that developers will likely push for the construction of biggest types yet in these cities.
Düsseldorf is beautiful to visit for a weekend (now).
Wait I'm confused. Why is this post in mildly infuriating? It gives the sense that the progress made in this city over the years has been negative. However the newer image looks a lot nicer than the old image and has fewer roads which means most likely traffic in other areas has been improved to take the load that the removed roads use to handle.
Am I missing something? Am I not in on the joke? Or is this some sort of political thing?
I like the 1990 picture more, has some industrial charm to it.
Are we going to magically assume the traffic just vanished?
People and goods still need to be moved from one part of the city to another, as well as from other parts of the country and even internationally. Way too many of these "fuck cars" people naively think you can just wave a magic wand and make the transport of goods and people just disappear. Something would need to be done to solve that. Was an underground highway built? Alien teleportation? A fleet of magic carpets were made available that run on unicorn farts that allow people to get around?
