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the point of the post is that walking, biking, and public transit make cities. not electric vehicles or fossil fuel vehicles. there were already buildings below the freeway. they just demolished it so the financial center and the (usually) rich tourists could have a pretty view. I'd busk there and take the tourists' money, buy calamari, it was great. I'm all for the freeway being gone, don't get me wrong, but it had absolutely nothing to do with public transit. the public transit was better when the freeway was there. like, that's the actual history of the place. it looks like the embarcadero in san francisco. specific corner down by the wharf, viewed from the hilton up in the financial district. like, the top of the hilton. i wish i knew which corner but i only know my way around there on foot. bottommost building in the right picture is a korean restaurant i like.
i could be wrong, this could be someplace else or purely imaginary, but it looks damn close to where i busked.
Fair enough! I suppose I had a more surface-level interpretation of the post than you, just seeing how much more appealing the area looked without all the big roads. I can see how you could think the post is misleading.