How This City Removed A 12 Lane Motorway To Restore It's Ancient Canal Built By The Moors

This city of the future has been making bold moves to prioritise people, their health and happines since the 1970s. When they stood up the modernist car movement, after a 12 lane motorway was built through the centre of the city on top of their 800 year old canal. This enraged the population and set the city on a course that put people first in a way that would see cars banned from the city centre entirely and they would lead the way on green infrastructure in ways many other cities would copy and and follow.

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Watch how this megacity, removed an expressway to restore an ancient river:

[frithbarbat]

WOW! Trust the Dutch to take back a bad idea. This is so wonderful, it made me teary.

[jeremyqadams]

The canal wasn't built by the Moors, Utrecht is in the Netherlands and has never been under Moorish control...

[gerry]

All credit to the authorities of Utrecht for reversing the poor planning of the 70s by restoring the canal.

[Smarty]

I've always loved Utrecht. I used to go there frequently. It looks like I need to start going there again. Brilliant achievement!

[jeroenbakker]

I used to live in Utrecht in the late 70's. Then, I would not have believed in my wildest dreams that they would do something like this! Amazing!

[miatx]

The funny thing is that Amsterdam is also kind of doing this.
There was a part of the area before the central station where they increased the canal. Because before that the whole place was one big concrete mess and full of roads.
They also heavily decreased the amount of parking spaces on the canals so that you as own of a car in Amsterdam have to bring it to the underground parking garages. This brings benefits. More livable space for the people who live on the canals and its much much more safer because cars can’t drive through and then no noise pollution and accidents by cars.

[neilbates]

Bravo to the The people with the vision and imagination to see the city would benefit from going back to the way things were I am old and a very nostalgic person I am English and I really appreciate the contributions of the victorians the parks and buildings they left us

[KJSvitko]

Amazing transformation. Very beautiful.
This video should be seen by all cities local transportation planners. It should be taught to city engineers and planners in University.
Walking, cycling and mass transit are key to making cities livable. People need to contact their local transportation planners and elected officials and make walking and cycling the preferred option of travel in the city.

[lucid]

America would never, we are too busy fighting with each other. I love Utrecht and Amsterdam, the people are very friendly and accommodating. The Van Gogh museum is breathtaking!

[Will_JJHP]

Please export some of your urban planners and civil engineers to the US to help us get back to our pre WWII sensibilities. I love cars, but building our infrastructure completely around it instead of people is an unmitigated disaster 🙏🏼

[MrPioorko]

I was there in 2009. Then there were public plans, public discussions about the revitalisation.

[MJ]

Wonderful. A lesson to us all, thank you for the revelation.

[Scugnizz]

This was really inspiring. Thanks so much for making the video.

[lawrenceforman]

Great engineering! From river to highway to river again!

Nice environment without pollution!

[CyclewithSerafina]

Wow! This is my hope for Adelaide in South Australia 😍🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

[startide]

I love that the guy is paddling with a traffic sign post :P @ 2:10

[HigherQualityUploads]

In the USA this project would've taken over 40 years, perhaps longer if NIMBYs started suing to pause construction.

[KJSvitko]

Send a link of this video to your local University engineering and traffic planning departments.

[durlanski]

One & only way for good living in the future cities