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Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos?' This photo: Sun shining. A close-up of the machine seen from the side over Work In Progress metal barricades. A yellow half-timbered café and house opposite us. We can clearly see the bricks being wound like one ready-made carpet out of the machine, slowly falling into place on the flat surface where several men in high-vis yellow gear are at work - laying, sweeping, fixing. dca9cb9899026010.jpg Seen from the back, behind building paraphernalia and a huge bag of concrete or some such - a vew of the brick road being wound out of the machine. A cyclist is just passing on the pavement alongside. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos? 817324f213269ca8.jpg Another angle of the same road work as in the first photo. This time we can see further along the street to a section not yet laid - just dirt on the surface. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos? 390b7cacbeb86eec.jpg A finished section of the 'printed' brick surface - a long stretch of perfectly laid bricks. On both sides: small businesses and cafes and cyclists and pedestrians on the pavement alongside. Same general description from first photo now follows, so skip if already heard: Vestergade, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. A lovely narrow old street that is, after a few years' trial, being turned permanently into a Quiet Street - cars may drive here, but only slowly, and bikes and pedestrians have priority. The council is planting trees, widening the pavement café and seating spaces, and laying a nice new chessboard-like brick surface. The surface is designed to slow down bikes too. It is the first place in Denmark that is being paved with a Dan Jord RoadPrinter - a Dutch brick paver that rolls out complete stretches of road from a machine, as if you are winding a continuous sheet of paper out from a huge roll of paper. Photo taken with permission - I have turned into one of those Auld Lads who stand there, hands behind my back, watching them at work, fascinated by the process, interrupting them with questions including 'may I take some photos? 6067566cd2fe72f6.jpg Aarhus. On the road outside the Ole Rømer Observatory, named after another famous Dane, Carl Nielsen. A broad clear road in Kongelunden, the Royal Woods, with trees on either side. Looking straight at the bus shelter, one of the city’s iconic mushroom-shaped bus shelters designed in the 1960s by furniture designer Poul Cadovius. A low concrete mushroom-shaped shell with standing room and a little bench inside. The council commissioned artists to paint them with local motifs. Artist Ekaterina Poliakova painted the night sky in this one. As you wait for the bus, you are surrounded on three sides and above by a black night sky with a map of the stars and constellations and galaxies, their names written beside them. Outside, the shelter’s shell is painted like a day sky – light blue with fluffy white clouds. 5863e259795ad7e0.jpg Seen from a side angle, so you can see the outside of the bus shelter with blue sky and white clouds painted on it, and night sky inside. Now follows same full description as on all photos in the toot, so skip if you’ve already heard it. Aarhus. On the road outside the Ole Rømer Observatory, named after another famous Dane, Carl Nielsen. A broad clear road in Kongelunden, the Royal Woods, with trees on either side. Looking straight at the bus shelter, one of the city’s iconic mushroom-shaped bus shelters designed in the 1960s by furniture designer Poul Cadovius. A low concrete mushroom-shaped shell with standing room and a little bench inside. The council commissioned artists to paint them with local motifs. Artist Ekaterina Poliakova painted the night sky in this one. As you wait for the bus, you are surrounded on three sides and above by a black night sky with a map of the stars and constellations and galaxies, their names written beside them. Outside, the shelter’s shell is painted like a day sky – light blue with fluffy white clouds. d77c03057313dd6d.jpg Inside the bus shelter looking out, a sliver of ‘night sky’ above our heads with stars and galaxies. Outside, a car passing by and other cars waiting to turn the corner. Now follows same full description as on all photos in the toot, so skip if you’ve already heard it. Aarhus. On the road outside the Ole Rømer Observatory, named after another famous Dane, Carl Nielsen. A broad clear road in Kongelunden, the Royal Woods, with trees on either side. Looking straight at the bus shelter, one of the city’s iconic mushroom-shaped bus shelters designed in the 1960s by furniture designer Poul Cadovius. A low concrete mushroom-shaped shell with standing room and a little bench inside. The council commissioned artists to paint them with local motifs. Artist Ekaterina Poliakova painted the night sky in this one. As you wait for the bus, you are surrounded on three sides and above by a black night sky with a map of the stars and constellations and galaxies, their names written beside them. Outside, the shelter’s shell is painted like a day sky – light blue with fluffy white clouds. 12a02e2bc1b007b6.jpg