{"id":20219,"date":"2025-03-04T21:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20219"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:06:19","slug":"daily_3654_-_new_street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/daily_3654_-_new_street\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3654 – new street"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

New housing has been going up in Sp\u00e5nga for years now. Low-density industrial sprawl replaced with apartment buildings, student housing, and services. That area is out of my way, so it’s happening close enough for me to notice it when I’m driving past, but not close enough to affect me day to day, or for me to be particularly interested. The most I do is occasionally make the detour to go to the new, larger Coop supermarket, instead of the smaller, closer one in the centre of Sp\u00e5nga.<\/p>\n

Now the hair salon I’ve been using in Sp\u00e5nga has moved from central Sp\u00e5nga (from a building that is slated for demolition and replacement) to a shiny new one on the other side of the tracks, right across from the “new” supermarket. I know that a pedestrian tunnel under the railway tracks has been in the works for a while, but I’ve never had reason to look at it, so I was only moderately sure it was finished and open. Google Maps still hasn’t caught up with the change and was suggesting a twenty-minute detour, but I took my chances.<\/p>\n

The tunnel was indeed finished and open and functional, but the area on the other side was eerily empty. The houses are up and finished, the streets are there, but there are no people. No bushes, no bicycles, no garbage, even – no signs of human habitation. And wire fencing still blocked off much of the pavement. It was like a ghost town, not because it has been abandoned, but because it hasn’t come to life yet.<\/p>\n

That’s why I haven’t noticed the tunnel being in use: there are no people there to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New housing has been going up in Sp\u00e5nga for years now. Low-density industrial sprawl replaced with apartment buildings, student housing, and services. That area is out of my way, so it’s happening close enough for me to notice it when I’m driving past, but not close enough to affect me day to day, or for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20222,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20219\/revisions\/20222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}