ADRM
Senior Member
They retained the old piers where they took down the Gardiner east of the DVP. They are hardly Greek bloody columns to be worth retaining. "Hey, let's retain additional monuments to the fact that decades ago people were dumb enough to ram a highway through downtown"
Yeah, I actually kinda hate the idea. I've driven/biked past the retained bents out east with multiple different groups of people who have said something to the effect of "why did they leave part of an ugly old bridge there?" as we've gone by.
They're not a monument to anything good or particularly relevant to our city's history and they just decrease the overall usable park space in what's not a huge plot of land.
Maybe I could get on board with their retention if they, say, commissioned a bunch of OCAD students to gussy them up in some substantial way and turn them into legit pieces of public art, but as beige-ish slabs of crumbling concrete, they don't do anything pour moi.