The Rue Renwa is a small road in the Burenville neighbourhood of Liège, Belgium. It is quiet, tree-lined and has no houses on it. It connectes two residential roads to the Rue Jules de Laminne, which in turn connectes to the E25 motorway. Rue Renwa is not a well-known road. The first few real links […]
The Dutch railway infrastructure operator ProRail is waging a war on the level crossing. They want to eradicate all level crossings. Near Baarn, they have built a footbridge to be able to close three nearby unprotected level crossings. This footbridge does not connect to any path. Next to it is a level crossing, still open […]
The Afsluitdijk was designed to hold the sea back and reduce flood risk along the then Zuiderzee – but has as side-effect that it connects the Dutch provinces of Noord-Holland and Friesland. When the Afsluitdijk – together with the Amsteldiepdijk – was planned in the late 1920’s, rail was still the major long-distance carrier for […]
Close to my house, there’s a road, the Kromwijkdreef, with a left-turn lane. If you go left you’ll end up … in the grass. Or down an embankment. Or, if you really step on it, in someone’s living room. Or balcony! Vlak bij mijn huis is een weg, de Kromwijkdreef, met een voorsorteervak naar links. […]
Just a short post for now, because the author is out chasing new Citrastructuræ. I found this one while hunting for bus stops. Een korte post, omdat de auteur momenteel op jacht is naar nieuwe Citrastructuræ. Gevonden terwijl ik op zoek was naar bushaltes. In the first image, the Citramobile, parked on a bridge. It’s not […]
The N73 motorway was a planned motorway from Kessenich, via Bree, Hechtel-Eksel, Leopoldsburg, Ham, and Tessenderlo to Aarschot. The section between Kessenich and Leopoldsburg is a 2-lane single carriageway with frontage access, going trough all those city centres except for Peer, where it runs south of the city. Between Kinrooy and Peer the road is […]
Blijvende Blunders: De grote nutteloze werken (1993) is a “touristic guide” by Douglas de Coninck. It lists 51 works of art in Belgium that had, at the time of writing, in some way failed. In most cases, the construction was “temporarily” halted. By now, some of them have been demolished, some of them have been finished […]
Buses come and buses go. Usually once every hour or more often. Bus lines also come and go, but with a much lower frequency. The route of several bus lines in our country has been virtually unchanged for nearly a century, even if the mode sometimes changed from horse tram, via electric or steam tram […]
This roundabout in New Kent, Virginia, clearly awaits better times. All those US Americans hate roundabouts, calling them “death traps” and worse. However, this one was mandated by the Virginia general assembly, and that means it has to be built – even if it connects to nothing.
In August 2013 I got the opportunity to visit the dive-under in the under-reconstruction rail line Utrecht-‘s Hertogenbosch. The concretework of the dive under was complete, as were part of the installations. But rails were no where to be found, leaving this tunnel unconnected on both sides.