We're familiar with historic freight waterways finding new uses, but LidoLine proposals break new ground. When the Landscape Institute launched a competition to come up with London's answer to New York's High Line (an urban park created from a redundant elevated freight railway), the runner-up was a swimming lane for the Regent's Canal. There would be a breathable membrane to protect swimmers, and skating would take over from swimming in cold winters. It would be a new transport artery for the capital.
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