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On the waterfront

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / April 1

Drive into the centre of Toronto from the airport and the sight that greets you is a mess. What ought to be an attractive asset for Canada's largest city, its 29-mile (46-km) waterfront along Lake Ontario, is blocked off by a tangle of 19th-century railway lines, an ugly elevated highway dating from the 1950s and a line of tower blocks. Arguments have raged for decades over how to redevelop the lakefront. The one insurmountable obstacle has been the rivalry between city, provincial and federal governments.

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