It will take some time until the trees have fully grown. 🌳
Till they’re fully grown we’ll have 40 degrees in the shade 🫠
Our country is incredibly green and yet our cities are very grey. It’s so sad.
The plants on the Dreirosenbrücke were a stupid idea and the BVD even says so. They’re looking for alternatives. But the other installations have been much smarter and more is to come. For example they’re thinking about installing sun sails and want to plant more trees in future.
We need bigger billboards spending shade and telling us that those trees – if they survive 45°C on concrete and the draughts the next few years – will make some shade, maybe.
Swiss city planners hate this one trick.
How did they even think that these tiny trees in a pot were going to provide any significant shade? If they are serious about providing shade and cooling the city, a trellis with climbing vines is going to provide the same effect much faster. A famous example of this is the MFO Park in Zürich
Basel City planners are a little stupid imo.
-Ultra hazardous tram tracks next to high boardwalks to be “handicap friendly tram stops” while creating more handicapped cyclists.
-Tearing down alot of former industrial spaces and just plopping down appartments like Kuppel, NT Areal and eventually Wagenplatz.
-Turning Freie Strasse into a valley of death oven.
-Planting trees in pots that die.
what is this?! shade for ants?!
Basel seems great at wasting taxpayers money.
Amusingly they paid for my German course as a new (well paid) auslander even though I haven’t actually paid Basel any taxes…
Yes, but crossing the dreirosenbrücke on foot sucks, they didnt think. It needs shade.
Funny how the sign casts way more shadow than the sad little tree (?) behind it
Yes, it’s stupid, but also, at least the poster is a lot less cringey than what the government usually produces lately. I count that as a win.
Makes shadow to a spermatozoa
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
How about more grass, less concrete and less asphalt?
If it looks stupid and doesnt work its really stupid
You know in warm countries they build structures specifically to provide shade, typically above benches. In a country where it’s both rainy in winter and hot in summer I still can’t understand how local authorities haven’t figured out they can just build shade. So many exposed benches that get unused for most of the year because it’s either too hot or too wet. I guess when all your city planners are cozy living rich folk, they have no idea what the average citizen actually needs.
Einfach ein Dach über Basel bauen, Problem Solved
How about tearing up that asphalt that heats up immensely in summer, and planting some trees? Climate change has made it pretty obvious that sealing all possible surfaces, which has been a Swiss hobby for the last fourty to fifty years, has been a shitty idea.
Looks fine to me. Casts more shadow that the entirety of the city does
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It will take some time until the trees have fully grown. 🌳
Till they’re fully grown we’ll have 40 degrees in the shade 🫠
Our country is incredibly green and yet our cities are very grey. It’s so sad.
The plants on the Dreirosenbrücke were a stupid idea and the BVD even says so. They’re looking for alternatives. But the other installations have been much smarter and more is to come. For example they’re thinking about installing sun sails and want to plant more trees in future.
https://www.bzbasel.ch/basel/basel-stadt/begruenung-basel-bekaempft-sommerhitze-mit-mobilem-gruen-neu-ist-das-nicht-ld.2457187
We need bigger billboards spending shade and telling us that those trees – if they survive 45°C on concrete and the draughts the next few years – will make some shade, maybe.
Swiss city planners hate this one trick.
How did they even think that these tiny trees in a pot were going to provide any significant shade? If they are serious about providing shade and cooling the city, a trellis with climbing vines is going to provide the same effect much faster. A famous example of this is the MFO Park in Zürich
Basel City planners are a little stupid imo.
-Ultra hazardous tram tracks next to high boardwalks to be “handicap friendly tram stops” while creating more handicapped cyclists.
-Tearing down alot of former industrial spaces and just plopping down appartments like Kuppel, NT Areal and eventually Wagenplatz.
-Turning Freie Strasse into a valley of death oven.
-Planting trees in pots that die.
what is this?! shade for ants?!
Basel seems great at wasting taxpayers money.
Amusingly they paid for my German course as a new (well paid) auslander even though I haven’t actually paid Basel any taxes…
Yes, but crossing the dreirosenbrücke on foot sucks, they didnt think. It needs shade.
Funny how the sign casts way more shadow than the sad little tree (?) behind it
Yes, it’s stupid, but also, at least the poster is a lot less cringey than what the government usually produces lately. I count that as a win.
Makes shadow to a spermatozoa
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
How about more grass, less concrete and less asphalt?
If it looks stupid and doesnt work its really stupid
You know in warm countries they build structures specifically to provide shade, typically above benches. In a country where it’s both rainy in winter and hot in summer I still can’t understand how local authorities haven’t figured out they can just build shade. So many exposed benches that get unused for most of the year because it’s either too hot or too wet. I guess when all your city planners are cozy living rich folk, they have no idea what the average citizen actually needs.
Einfach ein Dach über Basel bauen, Problem Solved
How about tearing up that asphalt that heats up immensely in summer, and planting some trees? Climate change has made it pretty obvious that sealing all possible surfaces, which has been a Swiss hobby for the last fourty to fifty years, has been a shitty idea.
Looks fine to me. Casts more shadow that the entirety of the city does
This is the saddest tree I‘ve ever seen