That open space is more awesome than I thought it would be

I was never really sold on the viaduct and tunnel projects in the sense of the impact that would be positive to the waterfront. Years ago in the early days of this blog I even commented on it.

It always just seemed like a fairly low level long overpass and not really that big of a deal.

But, now that it is totally down and I have had a chance to see the street by street changes at street level I am amazed.

Now that I have had a chance or two to drive along it and see how much more open it really is I am amazed.

Having recently gone to SF and then walking the home waterfront I now know what everyone was talking about.

It never seemed like it should have made this much of a difference, but wow it really did.