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#zagreb

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Some last pictures of #Zagreb's main station building, in deep need of renovation.

Bonus is a chart with 100 phrases to speak to locals. 😊 Featuring a cell to talk about an "ICN" train, with a design looking like a Spanish Pato (duck) high-speed train (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe_Cl). Not sure when such a train set wheels in Croatia. 🤔

In practice everyone I talked to spoke English, as it's quite a touristic city.

Main station building from the outside with rental (?) bicycles in the foreground.
Interior of the main station building. Brown paint detaching from the ceiling.
Departure screen with bird poop on it.
100+ croatian phrases to get by.
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The train tracks split the city in two: the area South of the station is a whole new part of town, where you'll find even larger 2x4 lane roads, with tramway tracks in the middle (ideal to miss your tram when you have to wait 3 minutes to cross the roads twice). At least there's enough space to have cycling lanes too (and indeed cyclists coming back from work).

Typical example of this #urbanism: a memory esplanade with a statue of former president Tuđman surrounded by highways. #Zagreb

Bidirectional cycling lane with 5 cyclists next to a 2x4 lane road.
Bidirectional tramway tracks in the middle of the highway.
Grass-covered espanade looking North with Tuđman's statue and the Medvednica hill in the background. In the foreground, flowers look to form coat of arms, although not distinctly identifiable from this point of view.
Esplanade looking South, with the national library (cubic building) on the right.
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However, the area between the train station and this core center receives way too many cars than what it can handle. Mainly 3-lane one-way streets with extra parking as much as possible. Cycling lanes are a 40cm wide stripe when space allows.

Even spotted a New-York-style parking lot: a whole block without building, just street level parking. #Zagreb

2 cyclists on a red stripe against a 3-lane road, in front of a yellow monumental building.
Lots of cars in front of a 3-level old appartment building.
Red stripe in the middle of a zebra crossing, interrupted by a scaffolding.
This block is just a parking lot.
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