Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tokyo water canals Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:32:58 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 22 Sender: crlipton@gol.com Message-ID: References: <45bfc75a$0$29329$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <52b9jdF1nf6kkU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 58x157x15x30.ap58.ftth.ucom.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1170246781 16499 58.157.15.30 (31 Jan 2007 12:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:33:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <52b9jdF1nf6kkU1@mid.individual.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000709-0, 2007-01-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:165116 John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote: > CL wrote: > >> Canals became the place of choice to scrape off the wreckage in >> 1923, 1945, and 1962 (for za Orimpikkusu). Then, instead of >> using the canal rights of way for a decent kosoku system, they >> built ugly flyovers because they produced more profit for road >> construction companies. > > Well, it's never too late: > > http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/12/08/seouls-new-heart/ Koizumi proposed much the same thing in the final year of his premiership but, like almost all of his ideas, he never paid attention to who would pay for it. Having worked around Nihonbashi / Mitsukoshimae for years, I have continually wondered what that place looked like before 1962. If the photos are any indication, that bridge was a very impressive piece of masonry before the kosoku plunged it into darkness. CL