General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

I can only hope that our heroic (and totally not arbitrary) local building codes can save us from that European horror…

Presumably this is sarcasm, but just because I want to make ya'll jealous, this is actually one of the less attractive parts of the neighbourhood (and I still find it frankly excellent) but here's a shot from the other side of the street.

The other corner of this intersection has a...frankly beautiful 10 story apartment building on an artificial lake that the local school sits on (yes ON).

Honestly, it's not just bike infra that makes the Netherlands great.

I wish these petrified ignorant NIMBYs could just spend a few minutes in a real mixed use neighbourhood like this. And the crazy thing is this is a highly car oriented place, parking is free and plentiful everywhere, most people have cars. It's too many cars for me, but at least it's a choice of whether to own a car.