>>1942097You have to get down to street level. In Toronto and the entire Greater Toronto Area we kept nearly the entire waterfront mostly nice with small beaches, parks, promenades, boardwalks, trails, public docks etc. There is that highway about 250 meters away but it is not always visible from the shoreline downtown as there are old and new buildings dividing it, since the planners knew paving over the shoreline you founded your city on with roads and highways is not easily reversed.
It's nice along the shore everywhere because we never built directly on the beach, there was always a buffer left to keep the natural environment as in tact as possible. The only pass Chicago gets is that it has those rivers, was already densely developed before the highways came in meaning it'd be hard to put one anywhere else but the shore but it's still a dumb fucking idea and they learned that since they've been trying to plan to fix it up now.
