The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
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The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht
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#2My 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 time.
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#3My 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…
> And IIRC the entire project was within budget
From TFA, "the one billion euro project is still ongoing, it will not be finished before 2026." There's plenty of time yet!
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#4My 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…
Yes, one of the better managed (and not outright corrupt) public works in the Netherlands. Cool stuff.
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#5Los 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.
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#6Quite an amazing effort, and the passing comparison to the Boston central artery/"big dig" was sobering.
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#7My 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 crossed the parky boulevard on top the other day. I had to double take because I've never driven in Maastricht, but I recognized the flats and didn't know why I would recognize them in the middle of the city I'd never been in. Until I realized I recognized them from the times the A2 went straight through!
Google streetview has images taken last year and 2009, so you can see the diff yourself.
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#9Does burying a whole road like this make it possible to capture and prevent vehicle smog in the streets above?
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#10My 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…
Cool. Now try to picture those fumes and pollution in a tunnel.