[wsc981]

I know in The Netherlands this happened in the city I grew up, Hoogeveen [0].

> In the second half of the 1960s, Hoogeveen was the fastest growing town in the Netherlands. Until that period, the town contained a number of canals, which had been dug in the area's early days when it was a prime source of peat and maritime transportation was a necessity for efficient transportation of cargo. By the 1960s the rise of the automobile and truck-based transportation meant the canals had lost much of their economic function, and the canals were filled in.

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[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoogeveen

[selimthegrim]

This is also true in New Orleans.