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I very much doubt it will come to fruition any time soon given the political climate.
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Nearly every sizable European city has a through railway, it is super common here. They are rarely any obstacle.
No: they are often obstacles, but they've been obstacles since the 19th century, so we have adapted the city and forgotten. They are often lesser obstacles, since they were built when all other traffic was on foot or by horse, and routes for people had to be maintained. Some motorways were built without this consideration, in the period of 20th century motorcar idealism.
As such, railways are less of a dividing barrier.
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Isn't it more literally 'bath'? I thought the English word came from it.
Yes, but as a town prefix it means that they've got medicinal springs. I think that's called spa, isn't it?
Los Angeles is going to build a wildlife overpass: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-largest-highway-overpass... Pedestrians and nature need to be given a higher priority.
The Netherlands is also well known for their ecopassages over highways (also known as ecoducts), according to Wikipedia there are 66 eco passages in the Netherlands as of 2015 [0]. There are some nice pictures of them in the wiki article as well. [0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopassage
[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1051185,5.3619931,3a,75y,296...
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-soldie...
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Compare the culture of the respective locations and it's obvious why the Netherlands had the better outcome. The feedback loops are all wrong for getting a high value tunnel under Boston. They are at least less wrong in "beer Europe"[0] + Scandinavia. Massachusetts government "pays itself first" Massachusetts people consider the problem unsolvable and tolerates it. Netherlands and the adjacent parts of Europe (i.e I…
Love that illustration. Do you have a source? I'd like to pay attribution when I share it elsewhere.
It also makes a lot of sense: fruit brandies are made of fruit like wine, but are as strong as vodka.
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Isn't it more literally 'bath'? I thought the English word came from it.
Yes, but as a town prefix it means that they've got medicinal springs. I think that's called spa, isn't it?
Which can be a medicinal spring, but also other potentially beneficial effects [2], there are towns on the sea, which have the prefix "Seeheilbad" [3], which is purely based on the positive climatic effect of the nearby sea.
And then, this is Germany after all, there is a long list of other boxes that need to be ticked, see [4].
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_(Kurort)
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilbad
My hometown! Cool to see it on HN. Maastricht uses to be the only traffic lights on route from Amsterdam to Paris. Yes. Traffic lights on a highway, in the middle of a city. As if the highway in the middle of a city wasn't annoyinh enough the traffic lights added some extra noise, fumes and pollution. The new tunnel has been the most magnificent change I've ever seen. And IIRC the entire project was within budget and…
My hometown! Cool to see it on HN. Maastricht uses to be the only traffic lights on route from Amsterdam to Paris. Yes. Traffic lights on a highway, in the middle of a city. As if the highway in the middle of a city wasn't annoyinh enough the traffic lights added some extra noise, fumes and pollution. The new tunnel has been the most magnificent change I've ever seen. And IIRC the entire project was within budget and…
I know Belgian traffic can be hell but going through Maastricht on the way from Amsterdam to Paris would be quite the detour :)
My hometown! Cool to see it on HN. Maastricht uses to be the only traffic lights on route from Amsterdam to Paris. Yes. Traffic lights on a highway, in the middle of a city. As if the highway in the middle of a city wasn't annoyinh enough the traffic lights added some extra noise, fumes and pollution. The new tunnel has been the most magnificent change I've ever seen. And IIRC the entire project was within budget and…