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Nice photos, Looking forward to the day where all the downtown rail tracks will be covered with parks. Chicago and other cities have done it. Why cant we??
 
Nice photos, Looking forward to the day where all the downtown rail tracks will be covered with parks. Chicago and other cities have done it. Why cant we??

Without dissing Chicago.............you're rather misrepresenting what was achieved there; and ignoring the many issues not attended to.

Even if we limited the discussion to public space.........

This is at the edge of downtown Chicago:

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This massive rail yard:

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Is only ~3km from the heart of downtown Chicago.

This rail corridor is only ~1.3km from the mighty Tribune Tower:

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Let's add, Chicago, a similar sized city to Toronto has almost 40% less parkland.
 
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Without dissing Chicago.............you're rather misrepresenting what was achieved there; and ignoring the many issues not attended to.

Even if we limited the discussion to public space.........

This is at the edge of downtown Chicago:

View attachment 386564

This massive rail yard:

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Is only ~3km from the heart of downtown Chicago.

This rail corridor is only ~1.3km from the mighty Tribune Tower:

View attachment 386567

Let's add, Chicago, a similar sized city to Toronto has almost 40% less parkland.
Without dissing Chicago.............you're rather misrepresenting what was achieved there; and ignoring the many issues not attended to.

Even if we limited the discussion to public space.........

This is at the edge of downtown Chicago:

View attachment 386564

This massive rail yard:

View attachment 386566

Is only ~3km from the heart of downtown Chicago.

This rail corridor is only ~1.3km from the mighty Tribune Tower:

View attachment 386567

Let's add, Chicago, a similar sized city to Toronto has almost 40% less parkland.
ohh I agree with you. I currently live between Chicago and Toronto and I agree, Chicago has lots of cleaning up to do and their traffic is worse than Toronto's to a certain extent. However Im talking about the main section of downtown where they were able to cover the majority of the rail tracks completely or partially along Michigan Ave with beautiful parks that attracts many tourists.
 
ohh I agree with you. I currently live between Chicago and Toronto and I agree, Chicago has lots of cleaning up to do and their traffic is worse than Toronto's to a certain extent. However Im talking about the main section of downtown where they were able to cover the majority of the rail tracks completely or partially along Michigan Ave with beautiful parks that attracts many tourists.

There's been a fair amount of discussion about the relative merit of that investment; and of its validity in terms of a Toronto comparison, most recently in the Rail Deck Park thread I believe.

Suffice to say, I don't wish to take this particular thread further off course.
 

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