• RustyNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    6 days ago

    NGL I like that aesthetic. Not something to live in of course, nor want to see it irl, but it’s pleasing to see

    • MagnyusG@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      6 days ago

      The craftsmanship is definitely something to behold, also helps that it looks clean and well maintained compared to any underpass here in the states.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Imagine walkways and plants growing down from above, that would be pretty cool imo.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    5 days ago

    This one might be a little unfair to blanket stamp with FuckCars - this is a crazy compact way of joining so many different arterial roads and funneling them into a single bridge (one that goes over a river, not just an overpass). It’s also crazily walk/bike-able (seriously, there’s more space than I’ve ever seen on a sidewalk in the states, on both sides of the bridge), and has lane restrictions for transit at peak load times. While gorgeously breathtaking in it’s monstrosity, it’s certainly one of the better car-brain designs out there.

      • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
        5·
        5 days ago

        I’ve either driven over the one pictured when I moved from Tokyo to where I live now or a very similar one, and have also driven in Austin. I can 100% confirm it sucks less here. As a bonus, no gun-flashing roadragers here!

    • galmuth@feddit.ukEnglish
      71·
      5 days ago

      Even though it looks kinda cool and cyberpunk, it’s still gross that there’s so many roads completely built over a city where people work and live, with a No Cycling sign suggesting cyclists and pedestrians are second class citizens here.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        The other big problem of vertical congestion like this is air pollution. I once looked at living close to a raised highway like this, but you’d more or less have to hold your breath every time you return home.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah, what grosses me out is just thinking of all the microplastic particles that cars put in the air. Our right to clean air should supercrde their right to convenience

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I was thinking the same thing. This doesn’t show off the material problems with car infrastructure, and it makes it look cool.

      Even in the most solarpunk utopian vision of the future I’d expect to be able to find some angle of infrastructure to photograph that makes it appear techno-dystopian, and even then it would still look cool.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      This is basically a futuristic dystopia that already exists. No wonder the sci-fi from this era was all so dark.

  • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    It’s a solid mid tier place in a high tier country transport wise. Japan’s infrastructure gives still a lot of leeway to cars even though they’re a small minority of the public. It’s safe to walk there but it’s not what I would call pleasant.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    5·
    5 days ago

    The sign at the right is a no-parking for bikes/cyclists. Thanks to Google Lens being able to read smudges better than me, it seems like it’s signed something hisamatsu police chuo ward, so I think the intersection is here: 35.68359477844466, 139.77831927150842

    I expected some of those to be rail rather than all expressway. If it’s any consolation, all of those are toll roads so at least people are paying to use them.

    EDIT: I was off by a couple hundred meters, it would seem by another post above (or below, I guess, depending upon your sorting). That one is also all toll roads so far as I can tell.

  • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    5 days ago

    I do appreciate the engineering complexity that goes into these kinds of crossroads though. I mean, even Nazi Germany had its good sides.