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Originally Posted by hipster duck
That's good. It needed it.
Same difference. The Decarie is arguably more of a blight since it actually involved mass demolition of urban neighbourhoods, and physically cutting NDG off from the rest of the city, whereas the Gardiner only involved the demolition of a few dozen houses. Toronto was always psychologically cut off from the lake by the railway pretty much from the start.
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Perhaps but I'd argue that today the areas adjoining Décarie are much more satisfying from an urbanistic perspective than the areas adjacent to the Gardiner.