Bury Tokyo expressways!
For the price of a mere 12 trillion yen–more than the GNP of most countries–Tokyo is proposing to demolish 50km of its expressways and replace it with a new 200m-underground network.
pix thanx: midorisyu
Green idea: Bury Tokyo expressways
AP—The Japan Times, Friday, May 1, 2009
Business executives proposed Thursday burying Tokyo's elevated and aging expressways 60 meters underground, thereby creating an eco-friendly urban environment and hundreds of thousands of jobs….The proposal calls for the elevated sections of the Metropolitan Expressway network in the heart of Tokyo, officially called the Inner Circular Route, to be demolished and replaced by the new underground network…more…
Having been stuck for hours underground in a Tokyo traffic jam and having carbon monoxide poisoning so bad I had to go to the ER, my opinion is:
DEMOLISH THE EXPRESSWAYS–DON’T BOTHER TO REPLACE ‘EM.
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May 1st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Maybe someone should clue them about the bleeding edge technology called “vents”.
In my small country town the only way I found to get me a carbon monoxid poisonning was to use all night long those old kerozene heaters.
Somebody will have to explain me why the fan kerosene heaters who have C0/CO2 alert monitors stop every 3 hours while the old ones can vomit for as long as the tank contain gas…
There’s nothing like waking up with the biggest hangover ever and your eyes trying to run away from your head. But at least you got a trip to the ER… Me I got a check by my ob-gyn of a wife resulting in a statement sounding like “you’re not dead, no need to go to hospital”
May 1st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Japan hasn’t invented “vents” yet (which goes with not inventing building insulation and weatherstripping).
Even educated health professionals here in Japan don’t understand why unvented, CARCINOGENIC, kerosene heaters are banned in the Real World for use in confined hog and battery chicken operations.