hmmm … I think it were that easy, someone would be marketing it by now.
Completely predictable result of concreting everything over. With enough green space between the concrete, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen. Soil absorbs the water and then plants pump it back into the sky (or, depending on the geology, help it on its way down to underground aquifers).
Weather events tend to be less extreme, too, if you have sufficient biological activity. Most of what’s ascribed to “climate change” is actually just the result of pouring excessive areas of concrete.
Just opened up Google Earth for the first time in ages to check View / Historical Imagery (can you do that in Google Maps? I couldn’t find a way).
Anyway, 2006 nothing was yet done. Next picture is a darker one from July 2009: it looks like they’re putting in what became the new harbor. Next picture is February 2012, and it’s the current set up with the big grassy area.
There is one worse: every project, every year, especially recurring ones, is open for bid, each year the bid goes lower and lower than the previous one. So, you cannot keep sources as they cannot go on without profit at such levels and the government chooses the lowest bid. As the bid keeps shrinking every year, it means worse and worse service/goods as time goes by.
Yes, it would be super convenient. While they are at it, they should do something about the roads leading in to Danshui. The road by the river is packed in the weekends.
Perhaps something similar to the freeway to the airport, multiple levels with the top two levels each going in one direction.
I am sure with better roads and parking far more people would visit Danshui.
At current capacity yes, but if they turn the useless patch of grass to a parking lot(or perhaps even better, a multistory parking facility) there is no more lack of space to park cars.
