Existing comment:
How close do you have to be to this fence before you really see or hear the traffic below?
The Park's designers had no way of knowing that automobiles and trucks would one day be invented, but they knew that the noise of horsedrawn wagons with iron wheels would interfere with the visitors' enjoyment of the Park. Their solution to the problem of moving crosstown traffic through the Park while concealing it from view and buffering the noise, was to sink four transverse roads into a "basement" level below the normal grade of the Park. |