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?
Also, the river probably doesn’t suit the transportation of goods necessary for high population densities. Maybe an underground rail?
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.
The dutch have more than one road (surprising, I know). Removing the eyesore won’t impact their shipping and transport
Removing a 4 or 6 way interchange absolutely would impact shipping and transport, which is why I suggested underground rail as a replacement.
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.
Dunno about a canal in a populated area, that’s breeding grounds for bugs. Definitely down with fucking the car-centric building we have now though.
If everything online English people say is any indication, I think that’s a yes.
This is because they’re too south to be northerners and to north to be southerners. The literal middle child of England. Every time you have to drive down south and it’s either pay to take the M6 toll road or deal with going closer to Birmingham, every stingy northerner is thinking in their head “fuck, this is a difficult choice”.
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.
so I found this location on Street View and there have indeed been some changes since 2014 and now:
Yeah I meant they did go through with it, but it’s not (yet) exactly like the plans show; they’re still building most of the stuff around it.
It’s hard to tell what has actually changed between these two pictures, if anything at all.
The bleeding great moat going through the middle, for a start?
i assumed the moat is simply not visible on the first pic? did they make the water appear out of nowhere?
The road used to be a canal, and was drained, and paved to 12 lanes in the 70’s. They ripped it back out and re-naturalized it to great success.
They canal is the road, the nature is sidewalks. Literally everything is different.
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
We ain’t doing shit “when the boomers die” except fight over water and resources on a dying world. Like, I appreciate the optimism, but…
Besides that a significant portion of the youth is turning hard-right as we speak. Young progressives always think all young people are like them.
a significant portion of the youth is turning hard-right as we speak
Normal thing to happen when the enthusiasm of youth is blunted by betrayal and rejection and defeat.
Like, fuck Fascism, but I can’t really blame a guy who has soured on the whole “Hope and Change” thing. Then having your brain hooked up to the YouTube algorithm of Andrew Tates and JBPs just blasting away all the braincells that aren’t killed by booze and vaping…
The allure of Fascism is the promise of a big ethnic club to end your sense of alienation and despair combined with a near-to-hand enemy you can lash out at with the consent of the police. The Methamphetamine of ideologies - powerful highs and hard crashes. Its what you take when you’re scrambling at the edge of a psychic pit.
That’s paired with an even greater portion turning far-left. Overall, Gen Z is far more progressive than reactionary, though there are radical fascists as well.
I haven’t seen any data or polling that supports this. A larger portion of young people are “more liberal,” but I’ve not seen anything that says that the extensions of the far, radical right have been met with equal (let alone greater) turns towards leftist political ideology.
Perhaps you just mean center-left people refer to themselves as “leftists” more often? That’s more of a result of the shift in the Overton window than any actual groundswell of leftist support.
Not only that, cities don’t even want to pony up the cash for repairing potholes let alone massive landscaping projects.
