• @[email protected]
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    2210 months ago

    Why not just make a green space? Whats the point of bulldozing and flooding the land underneath the highway? Did a representative for the mosquitos make this meme?

    • PugJesus
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      4910 months ago

      THE MOSQUITO LOBBY

      I KNEW IT

      I’m pretty sure this meme is just suggesting making green spaces out of former highways, not literally turning it into a canal.

    • mommykink
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      1510 months ago

      No, you don’t get it. The highway is still there, its just been flooded from global warming

    • Herbal Gamer
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      1310 months ago

      Okay so in case you’re serious: The water was there first. They filled it in and built a road before reversing that.

    • Pietson
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      1110 months ago

      IIRC it was a river before it was a highway, and they decided to restore it to it’s natural state.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      You mean bulldozing and flooding the land that they drained and paved? It was a canal before it was paved in the 70’s

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      They’re Dutch.

      They get all antsy-in-their-pantsy of they can’t see water from where they’re standing.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      Also, the river probably doesn’t suit the transportation of goods necessary for high population densities. Maybe an underground rail?

      • Herbal Gamer
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        610 months ago

        You do realise rivers have been our highways for thousands of years?

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          Okay, pal, go ahead and transport 30,000 kilos of produce upriver within the next 2 days 16 times and tell me how efficient this river idea works out.

          Spoiler: It’s gonna be terrible.

            • @[email protected]
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              I don’t think the Goudvis cargo ship’s 18 Meter Width is going to fit in the canal depicted above in Utrecht, just a hunch. I can’t speak for this cargo ship specifically but cargo ships in general are incapable of going upriver.

              • Herbal Gamer
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                39 months ago

                Feel free to nitpick this random image I got from the internet somewhere, but if you’re really that worried; there’s still a road next to the canal.

                • @[email protected]
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                  29 months ago

                  You’re complaining that I gave your low effort reply a decent counter argument? I feel like that’s a you problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        The dutch have more than one road (surprising, I know). Removing the eyesore won’t impact their shipping and transport

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          Removing a 4 or 6 way interchange absolutely would impact shipping and transport, which is why I suggested underground rail as a replacement.

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            9 months ago

            As neither of us are civil engineers, I’m going to stick with my intuition on this until you can provide proof of impact.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              You have no idea of my titles, but thanks for reiterating that you have no idea what you’re talking about.