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The NYC High Line has a view worth strolling through. Who wants to see a view a view of grass, industrial parks, and random subdivisions..
Don't forget the Waste Management Yard near Midland Station...I'm sure people will love walking past that and smelling all the garbage!The NYC High Line has a view worth strolling through. Who wants to see a view a view of grass, industrial parks, and random subdivisions..
The NYC High Line has a view worth strolling through. Who wants to see a view a view of grass, industrial parks, and random subdivisions..
I've noticed that if your walking down 10th, it's actually quicker to go up to the High Line, as you don't have to stop at every traffic light.The NYC High Line has a view worth strolling through. Who wants to see a view a view of grass, industrial parks, and random subdivisions..
I'll be a cynic and say perhaps the people who choose to make their home amongst the same grass, industrial parks, and random subdivisions.
Please don't mistake my gripes for subway envy but I get a very real feeling a lot of people in Toronto don't want the former Scarborough to develop into a more agreeable environment. Maybe it makes some of Toronto feel better about itself to have Scarberia-the-bad image out there where the polluting cars, brown people and big box stores live and (fortunately) they don't.
Who cares if people further west turn their noses up. Build it for the people who already live there. The more novel ideas built in the 'burbs, the less the 'burbs feels like the 'burbs.
We're not building an elevated park for a few thousand people who live amongst the industrial parks.
And nobody elsewhere in Scarbrough is going to travel to this thing to stare at an industrial park.
IMHO, the part of the line that has the most potential is this stretch from that little ravine/park just west of Brimley Road to the train yard east of McCowan. I know it's a gamble whether the downtown latte-sipping elitists would visit. But if they didn't, I don't think anyone would miss them.
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