Yeah, I dunno why OP put quotes on it.

It's a dream come true far as I'm concerned.

I haven't found anyone adding the detail that the photo is a bit deceptive.

The road is still there, it was just moved underground. It surfaces at the bridge in the background.

It's definitely better, but the car traffic is still there, just hidden.

Source: I live a couple minutes from where the photo was taken

All my homies like chilling by the water

This title is under a few layers of irony, there are similar pictures floating around of green spaces converted to highways in the US with the same title, OP is suggesting the European version actually is progress

I think there should be some shading structures around the walkway.

You know people drink water too right? It's not just a backdrop for your selfies lol

I highly doubt OP knows what quotes mean here

The cars are still there, in massive numbers. You just can't see the tunnel they built between those two pictures. It's right beneath the feet of the pedestrians.

Maybe it's an art installation titled "Progress"

Maybe he meant the upper picture is "progress"

Rage bait

I agree ! We unfortunately are cutting trees in favor or roads in india !

Less cars, more trees, more happiness.

because the cars are still there just OutofSight

c/unnecessaryquotes

Should have bulldozed the whole Rhine

The road is still in the same place, but it's a tunnel nowadays.

Stop it! I can only get so hard

America has done almost the exact same thing as in this photo: https://images.app.goo.gl/i6UN6uCZWBjUqNL57

I think this is my first time seeing the “/s” on lemmy. And I really hope it doesn’t follow users here. We fully understood the sarcasm without it. It was honestly so much more a statement with ironic wording than it was even sarcasm.

I feel like we’re better than this. We can’t complain about Hollywood and advertising dumbing everything down to the level they think we need and then turn around and spoon feed each other the most basic forms of speech.

Because when the word "progress" is used, it is usually a loaded term with some specific connotations. The quotes indicate this is a reference to the word "progress", not a use of the word "progress", and it's intended to draw your attention to the fact that this change, while clearly a positive and desirable one, contrasts strongly with what is usually meant when a person says it.

I mean look at the curves of that beach!!

Most cities just can't really afford it

Cologne is pretty gay and not far away. Come by during CSD!

Why not visit Hamburg? It's like a cool version of Berlin

I grew up next to Düsseldorf. I freaking love this city. Wouldn't it be so expensiv i would live there.

Because it is a magnet for anime fans, i early came in contact with queerness and different worldviews. Düsseldorf still has a big connection to art and due to figures like Joseph Beuys the art community is still pretty progressive. I went to university there and the campus had a progressiv Atmosphere there as well.

But on the other side the city is full of rich and conservativ people. A weird contrast. I would say Düsseldorf is educated while cologne is more open and welcoming.

For real. This gives me hope for American cities

I see a cylinder bit an obelisk.

We need this here in Brisbane as well.

Public transit and shared autonomous car usage.

Dreaming

You can't

No stroad

are yall ever warry of france?

Don't worry, the historic buildings were destroyed years ago to meet minimum parking requirements

Low income housing is a far better use of space than preserving "historic" buildings that are actually just out of code, poorly designed, and slowly decaying old houses that never actually had any historical significance.

The needs of people who are alive and struggling today are infinitely more important than your nostalgia for the homes of dead rich cunts.

No, the street is now underground.

That's how I feel about SoCal. I noticed on Google Maps a lot of homes are taking up the sea cliffs south of LA. I always thought that all coastline in CA was public...

It's so weird to me that for some people the only way to escape the car dependency is to invent fucking teleportation.

What's the name of the novel? I kinda want to read that now because that sounds interesting.

Etwas. Is aber echt. Ist ganz hübsch dort

Die Farben sehen wegen der Abendsonne und der benutzten Kamera echt ein bisschen so aus, aber die Rheinpromenade ist echt sehr schön.

This guy said something photoshop related in German and I hope it is not a photoshop

Maybe you're thinking of the Egypt Coastal Highway that they expanded over a beach?

I feel like I remember seeing a before and after but I can only find a good after pic now: https://i.redd.it/9mx2c8bgtb4b1.jpg

Bonus sad view of the traffic that now fills the new space: https://i.redd.it/fyqnzxeuk3ab1.jpg

I'd say riverfront land in Düsseldorf has developers drooling also. It all comes down to will, and / or corruption

Am I missing something?

Yes, the fact that you’re in mildlyinteresting

Here is another picture. you can see the church in the background. The right side is the road to the houses, and on the left is the speed-way with 2x2 lanes. It was (still) crazy back then.

EDIT: I was corrected. Its not. It is the substitute road.

Here is a recent picture looking from the other direction. Again the church now on the left. It was a crazy project but it was well received by the Altstadt/Oldtown.

In the German Wikipedia you can find another nice picture of the Rhine-Bank (Rhein-Ufer). It shows the Steps to the Rhine in 1900 - before the asphalt rolled over all that land. Notice the church and Tower in the back. And today.

the substitute road

Its not gentrification if we build enough of it!

Eh, you don't need a highway through the heart of the city for that.

A lot of cities in Europe are actively discouraging people from taking the car to get to the city center. Either by requiring a permit to enter, making it very convoluted to get to your destination by implementing one-way streets and having a few big roads made to take on traffic, outright banning older cars with bad emission, or a combination of the above.

This is typically balanced with park & rides outside the city center, from where you can easily take public transport into the city.

Suppliers are still allowed in and are able to do so because less cars are driving there.

The city I live in has recently implemented such measures. Lots of people were complaining beforehand. But after a few years, there's not less people making it inside the city, no massive congestion, better air quality,...

Edit: not saying this is necessarily the case here. From other comments, it does seem they moved traffic underground. But my reply is still valid to your comment.

You can see in the top picture(1990) that there are very few cargo trucks. It looks like mostly consumer traffic. The most likely altenative is the https://en.wikipedia.org/... massive public transport system they've built since 1988.

Are we going to magically assume the traffic just vanished?

It's an underground highway. Out of sight, out of mind. I imagine they probably also improved the overall road design, like Seattle, Denver, and Boston have done (or are doing) with their projects to bury highways below-grade.

You should start !suckcardickstheytastegreat or something

They built a tunnel for the traffic which is a pretty typical strategy for these kinds of projects.

Or maybe the number bus and tram lines increased, and the train systems expanded. "One person, one car" is a mentality we should all be saying "fuck that" to.