This is a ‘canopy promenade’ in Nyirmartonfalva, Hungary. It used to be a small forest here, but that was fully cut. The mayor of the village got €165K from the European taxpayers to creat this wonder.

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  1. 165k? For that? Never built anything in my life but I that seems like 80k at best, including clearing the forest. They didn’t even clear the underbrush and weeds

    What does the random ahh staircase say?

  6. This is so, so depressing. From the trees being cut to the taxpayer’s waste of money, all the way to the final landscape of tree stubs amongst that weird construct and a disheveled politician looking on

  7. I just wanna say the man in the picture (Ákos Hadházy) is not the mayor, he’s the only opposition politician in Hungary who tries to do anything against the current government, and he is constantly trying to shine light on the corruption.

  9. BTW, the guy on the 1st pic is not the mayor, but Akos Hadhazy, a politician who is tirelessly trying to fight corruption with finding and reporting cases like this one.

  10. Just because it took me a minute to figure out:

    It was supposed to be a walk through the *canopy* of the *forest*.

    The same *forest* they cut down to build the walk.

    So now it’s just a walk above a field.

  11. Welcome to Poland. Remove full grown trees when renovating streets and sidewalks in cities and then put some tiny wooden sticks in large pots that will die year later 🥲 top EU funding moment.

  12. How nice would it have been had he only cut the path thru the trees for his elevated walkway, instead of murdering all the trees.

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