This is the city of utrecht. One of the biggest cities of the Netherlands. They started restoring the city center about 15 years ago. The traffic was either put outside or reduced. Biking, trams and buses take care of mass transit. It’s parts of the cu2030 project (stations gebieded) https://cu2030.nl/ if you want to know more. the project has been a great success and is used as a blueprint for other cities in the country.
My city is planning to make a sports area in a patch of vacant land in the middle of town, the plans show that the frickin' parking lots take up about 50% of the whole site! They are also building brand new baseball fields there even when we already have 3 right now that's only 1.63 km away. They haven't started any construction yet so I'm contemplating a Lil sabotaging, maybe plant some bamboo in that area idk.
We laugh, but there are a lot of plans across North America to revert the overuse of car infrastructure. Even Quebec small town, who love saying they're the opposite of Montreal, are desifying and giving up on doubling lanes on roads, adding bike paths and attempting to work with what they have to reduce solo car usage.
I feel like this picture is misleading. The first one was taken a lot further away from those towers and you can see most of the trees were already there. The first picture is also taken in rainy weather which makes everything seem way more dull than it really is. It's hard to tell what has actually changed between these two pictures, if anything at all.
I thought we were just going to immediately live somewhere affordable, then change jobs...?
There's small documentary about this canal on youtube. It's fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePpwYCs_JM
When most of the humans die 😂
Doesn't matter. You and everyone else will too by then. No doubt.
Any way to escalate this? Uh, my manager was asking about it. Yeah.
You'll have to tell the community of gen-Zers that they're not allowed to live under that bridge first.
You know that you don't have to wait til they die, right? We can expedite the process if we have the....(coughs) "armory'" to do so.
It ain't gonna happen. I don't mean to downplay what a shit gen the Boomers were but let me tell you, there are still boomers in Gen X and Millennials and this bullshit is going to persist unless lessons are learned and people stop touting and financing and voting for toxic politicians and corporations running the show. Is it getting better, maybe, but the assholes are going to continue to land in power and gain popularity because people are dumb and narrow-minded. I already see it in others from my generation and I don't think we're headed for the anti-boomer utopia we're all wishing for, maybe better than their generation but a long way to go still
Why wait ?
