This meme came on my feed as one of those annoying “suggested” posts from FB which mysteriously have like 400K likes. It makes it seem like Düsseldorf just got rid of a highway and put in a park. Instead, the road was simply made into a tunnel.
▪️It’s called the Rheinufer Tunnel. It was built between 1990-93 and moved 1,928m of Rheinuferstraße underground. It took:
🔹600,000 m³ excavated earth
🔹235,000 m³ concrete
🔹22,000 tons reinforcing steel
And it moves 55,000 cars/day. It’s pretty cool, but is an example of smart industrial engineering, not some move away from highways.
https://www.wf-ib.de/en/about-us/history/from-1975/1993/the-rheinufer-tunnel-in-dusseldorf/
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
