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    4 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

      Now I understand! So the canal was covered up with a highway, water was just going beneath it. Removing the highway just uncapped it again.

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    4 months ago

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

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    4 months ago

    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.

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        4 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.

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    4 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)

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    4 months ago

    The last picture still looks quite shitty. Not even grass wants to live there and doesn’t look like a nice spot to chill.

    Still, huge improvement in noise and stank.

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      4 months ago

      The grass and vegetation is lush, it’s just unmowed, the second picture shows foot traffic wear (which I’d wager comes from people getting on/off a canal boat there)

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      The grass is left to do its thing along with the native flowers and plants so bees have a nice space to chill

      It’s actually really lush all through Utrecht until you get into the old city which is mostly cobblestone

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      4 months ago

      It’s in the middle of summer and 2022 was pretty dry.

      Show me your water waste free summer grass.