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Did they really build a fucking street on top of the river? Why would you do this?
In 1973 they replaced the canal with a road, since... cars go vroom vroom and need space, but this was reverted between 2010-2020.
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Fuck cars.
More like crave and devour space like a cancerous growth
There was water first, then they built a road, then they restored the water.
I canal believe they did that
Pretty much, yes - the Stadsbuitengracht was a defensive moat originally, then they converted part of it into a motorway in the 70s.
Not uncommon. Cities grew and the aqueducts just went director to their river, si they suck and paving them was a good excuse to get rid of the sanitation problems they had while expanding car infrastructure. Cities today know better and built aqueducts that didn't dump everything to the river.