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 ain't doing shit "when the boomers die" except fight over water and resources on a dying world. Like, I appreciate the optimism, but...

That is my hometown Utrecht. It used to be a canal but was partially changed into roads in the 50s. Luckily it has now been changed back to a canal again. Was quite a project but it's an amazing improvement.

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...?

When most of the humans die 😂

There's small documentary about this canal on youtube. It's fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePpwYCs_JM

Why wait? Let's do it right now!

ITT: Doomer posting

Doesn't matter. You and everyone else will too by then. No doubt.

What the hell is this thing?

Any way to escalate this? Uh, my manager was asking about it. Yeah.