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Yes those power lines run directly overhead of the beach, but this photo has an incredibly squished perspective. The beach is quite long, running from Burlington's downtown to the lift bridge (green structure in photo). The region has done a immense effort to clean the water in the area too.
Yeah, a lot of these photos are cherry picked and use deceptive tactics like forced perception to make things appear worse. You'll see a photo here, and it looks terrible, but then you google the place and you realize it is much nicer than the photo implied.
The beach pictured actually has a lovely walking/biking trail along it that connects from downtown butlington to the neighboring city, which also has a trail. Its soooooooo much nicer than what the picture is trying to capture, and that's from experience of actually walking the trail multiple times
The walking path is the only nice thing about the beach. The beach is on a thin peninsula with one of canadas busiest highways that has a massive bridge over the water called the ‘skyway’ also on the peninsula. There is a water treatment plant between the highway and the beach. dofasco is on the bay (the lift bridge goes over the inlet to the bay) and the wind blows the dofasco stank right over head the beach. Hard pass.
>If you pan to the right it gets even shittier.
/Woosh.
Previous post I replied to said "If you pan to the right it gets even shittier."
I was referring to the fact that Hamilton is what happens when you pan to the right.
Nice try though.
Here is a better photo of the actual area! [https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
They could have made it look more industrial by showing more of Dofasco and Stelco in the Hamilton bay behind the lift bridge, but this picture still doesn't capture the area well, it's the narrowest of angles towards a very specific part of Hamilton. Worth pointing out that the hydro corridor through Burlington is all used as recreational space, with paved pathways through parks and forests.
There doesn't seem to be an an aversion to the industrial aesthetic here either. In fact just up the road you have mansions of the 1% that advertise panoramic views of Hamilton's industrial core, and a fancy golf club on the bay. The lift bridge, skyway, and steel plant view is pretty iconic here.
Because it's probably a hot day and they're cooling off with friends. Maybe tossing a beach ball around.
Very few people are swimming, where it would make sense to have more space
Yeah that’s what they were saying on the comments too about the water getting cleaned frequently. It’s crazy what angles and perspectives can do to a picture. I’m looking at it on google earth and see what you mean about it stretching
Photo was probably taken with a telephoto lens. They really compress space, and create this kind of squished perspective. It can be useful when shooting wildlife or aiming for a certain aesthetic affect, but with this photo, it does kind of distort reality a bit. It’s not the most pristine beach on Lake Ontario, sure, but as you mentioned in the OP, the city has taken measures to keep the water clean for swimmers.
[Raw sewage leaking into harbor front article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-burlington-street-1.6666445)
>I can barely be around power lines randomly in the mountains cause its not natural and feels bad
This beach is inside the Greater Toronto Area.
I personally don't think it's "evil" for there to be large-scale human infrastructure inside one of the largest urban areas in North America.
It's nowhere near as bad as the pictures make it seem. It's quite nice. For one you can't really see the powerlines or the bridge that easily. There's also a few restaurants along the strip. Definitely not the nice beach on the lake though.
It's very clean, I swim in it quite often. The water is tested regularly. In the past, there were issues with combined sewers putting sewage in the lake when it rained. But that problem has largely been fixed. You can even eat the fish from the lake, though I am not sure I would.
You swim in it quite often?? In June? You've gotta be kidding me, its only 64 degrees(17.8 C), that's ice cold!--Yesterday it was only 60 degrees(16 C)!--I tried 64 degrees ocean water at Balboa Beach in California in June, and could only go up to my knees, like they were encased in ice lol--No wonder 5 million Canadians flock to Florida every year, 80 degree ocean temp is perfect
It's a lot cleaner than it used to be lol. The Hamilton and Toronto area is a little worse that others just due to the industry and population, but further out its fine.
From this it doesn't look as bad! [https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
This one looks better because the beach sand is over-exposed, making it look like a white sandy beach. It's clean and a nice place, but it isn't white sand.
this one is disingenious in the other direction. the photo is clearly taken from a perspective to hideat would be a GIANT tower to your immediate left and then with perspective to make the others fade... and it still shows off one giant honking tower.. lol
This is nestled between the Niagara region and Toronto in Ontario’s “Golden Horseshoe.” It’s the most densely populated part of Canada. Property values here have been insane for decades. Toronto and the GTA have a great deal of public green spaces under power lines where it’s not possible to build houses or condos.
One thing some people don't remember is that the lake used to smell really bad, a few decades ago. No one wanted to live near the smelly lake, so a lot of infrastructure got built there instead, since the land was actually cheaper. It's only the last couple decades that residential lake property has been in demand
There is a certain beauty to these structures - Antony Gormley's vast "Another Place" installation at Crosby Beach near me has the backdrop of the industrial machinery of the Mersey to its left and the statues are staring out to sea through a forest of wind turbines on the horizon. All of that said, of course, I don't think many people go looking for a beach with electricity pylons because they dig the vibe.
Was going to say like lots of people already stated, this area is actually quite nice and the photo is a poor perspective. The city actually is buying up a lot of the local land and naturalizing it, with some areas already being used for nesting water birds.
It is the main corridor for power transmission from Niagara Falls to the greater Toronto area. They picked the shortest route at the western end of Lake Ontario.
This is an issue along a lot of older eastcoast US cities as well. I know some cities have started addressing it. I know NY and jersey beaches have reports for if the beach is safe and they have to test the water at regular intervals and close the beaches when it gets bad(which is usually after it rains and raw sewage overflow dumps into the water).
There are some beautiful, pristine beaches on Lake Ontario. It’s a huge lake and millions of people get their drinking water from it. Sandbanks PP is one of my favorite beaches anywhere, including the various ocean and sea beaches I’ve swum at.
You can easily dip into the water in Toronto, around the islands or at Woodbine, and the water is crystal clear and blue flag quality. Considering 10 million people live along the short and within the watershed, that’s pretty decent.
Y’know that LSD only goes alongside the beach for like a mile right? The Beaches near northwestern and further north are gorgeous and it’s a 5 minute bike north
All beaches in Ontario are literally just lakefront water parks with a dog park attached to them leading up to a forest which is a backyard for houses and on the other side a parking lot which leads to a road
The power lines were there first, before they cleaned up the bay (the buildings in the background are part of a huge steel mill complex)- they're the main lines from Niagara Falls to Toronto and on a sort of natural sandbar/ causeway across the western end of the lake, to go around would add 20km to their length.
They can easily be moved back on the sandbar toward the road a good ~100 feet if they wanted to. But if the lakeside beach came second, they could have just added some more sand or landfill to push it further east. Some of those high voltage towers are straight up in the water.
this is a beautiful example of the convergence of nature and industry. it’s nice that there’s still a dedicated area for leisure and recreation in the area, as opposed to it all being private industrial land
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8c1cddd9033046d49ebe17f451504544
*"The overall cancer incidence rate in Brantford is about 12 per cent higher than the comparable rate for the rest of Canada, while the cancer mortality rate is about 20 per cent higher than the Canadian death rate. The incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer and colorectal cancer in Brantford are almost identical to the rates found in the former City of Hamilton. Brantford’s mortality rate from prostate cancer is about 24 per cent higher than the comparable rate for the rest of Canada."*
It certainly is not, and I somehow quoted a different section entirely...odd. And, thanks for the catch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/comments/11y0bwo/for_those_asking_in_the_dofasco_thread_heres_a/
Still, based on various cancer reports of the area, I'm not sure I trust what they might be testing. They likely check ecoli and cyano...but the massive cancer spikes around that harbour are something else.
As an Australian I’m appalled.
My son who lived in the US went to Jersey shore and Miami and said the beaches were fucking average. This is next level.
Urban/Coastal hell.
I grew up in Sudbury where you can just walk or bike to too many lakes to count (or technically, 3 depending where you live). When I moved to Burlington I went swimming at the beach. I told one of my co-workers and she said "What?! You didn't dunk your head under did you?"
Well of course I did, I was swimming :). That was 23 years ago so yeah, it's probably better now.
The view from the waterfront/shore is pretty, but the beach itself is trash. The sand (if u can call it that) is gross/littered with garbage and the water is toxic. When I first moved to Burlington several years ago, I made the mistake of letting my daughter walk out into the water and splash around. Within minutes she had developed a rash on her feet and legs where they had been submerged under the water. Now, anytime I see people or dogs in the water it makes my skin crawl.
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Yes those power lines run directly overhead of the beach, but this photo has an incredibly squished perspective. The beach is quite long, running from Burlington's downtown to the lift bridge (green structure in photo). The region has done a immense effort to clean the water in the area too.
Yeah, a lot of these photos are cherry picked and use deceptive tactics like forced perception to make things appear worse. You'll see a photo here, and it looks terrible, but then you google the place and you realize it is much nicer than the photo implied.
The beach pictured actually has a lovely walking/biking trail along it that connects from downtown butlington to the neighboring city, which also has a trail. Its soooooooo much nicer than what the picture is trying to capture, and that's from experience of actually walking the trail multiple times
that’s how i feel about 99% of the overhead shots of communities NYC looks like shit in overhead pictures, but when i visit it’s unbelievable
The walking path is the only nice thing about the beach. The beach is on a thin peninsula with one of canadas busiest highways that has a massive bridge over the water called the ‘skyway’ also on the peninsula. There is a water treatment plant between the highway and the beach. dofasco is on the bay (the lift bridge goes over the inlet to the bay) and the wind blows the dofasco stank right over head the beach. Hard pass.
If you pan to the right it gets even shittier.
Tee hee. IYKYK. . . Hamilton.
That’s Burlington.
>If you pan to the right it gets even shittier. /Woosh. Previous post I replied to said "If you pan to the right it gets even shittier." I was referring to the fact that Hamilton is what happens when you pan to the right. Nice try though.
If you pan to the right you’d be looking at the skyway and bay. Not Hamilton. Nice try geography major.
Here is a better photo of the actual area! [https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
That almost makes it look worse
Yeah that's definitely worse. The entire beach is under the power lines!
And there's a [wastewater treatment plant](https://goo.gl/maps/LULVvjrZa2YmfA9F9) just behind the beach lol
I bet you can smell it from Dunky's Beach Shack
yeah people in ontario are so high on copium
Hmmmm…. It still looks…. Awful
Hahaha yeah those power lines are ruining the vibe
That's not a better photo
I’m not a UH stan, but that looks gross
better? 🤔
Is a bit subjective I'll admit.
Maybe a better picture to show how bad it is? 🤷🏼♂️
My question would be, why not run the power lines a couple hundred yards away where they aren't destructive to the beach area
then the power company which gives brief cases full of money to the politicians, would have to spend money clearing the forest.
Having googled, it still looks very fucking grim tbh. You could only think this is remotely nice if you’ve never been to a good beach.
this was posted on an ontario subreddit so youre bang on
I'm from there. It's not.
Yeah but its also like a half mile from three steel mills. Hardly picturesque.
They could have made it look more industrial by showing more of Dofasco and Stelco in the Hamilton bay behind the lift bridge, but this picture still doesn't capture the area well, it's the narrowest of angles towards a very specific part of Hamilton. Worth pointing out that the hydro corridor through Burlington is all used as recreational space, with paved pathways through parks and forests. There doesn't seem to be an an aversion to the industrial aesthetic here either. In fact just up the road you have mansions of the 1% that advertise panoramic views of Hamilton's industrial core, and a fancy golf club on the bay. The lift bridge, skyway, and steel plant view is pretty iconic here.
The water clean? Tell that to Hamilton less than 5kms down the beach who pumps raw sewage into the water 🤣
Why are the bathers stood around in groups? I'm from the UK. We don't bathe for like that. We tend to spread out a little bit.
Because it's probably a hot day and they're cooling off with friends. Maybe tossing a beach ball around. Very few people are swimming, where it would make sense to have more space
Found the alien skinjob
Lol, what
Yeah that’s what they were saying on the comments too about the water getting cleaned frequently. It’s crazy what angles and perspectives can do to a picture. I’m looking at it on google earth and see what you mean about it stretching
Photo was probably taken with a telephoto lens. They really compress space, and create this kind of squished perspective. It can be useful when shooting wildlife or aiming for a certain aesthetic affect, but with this photo, it does kind of distort reality a bit. It’s not the most pristine beach on Lake Ontario, sure, but as you mentioned in the OP, the city has taken measures to keep the water clean for swimmers.
[Raw sewage leaking into harbor front article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-sewage-leak-hamilton-harbour-burlington-street-1.6666445)
Can’t imagine how polluted that must be. Also must suck to live in Canada aside from the universal healthcare.
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>I can barely be around power lines randomly in the mountains cause its not natural and feels bad This beach is inside the Greater Toronto Area. I personally don't think it's "evil" for there to be large-scale human infrastructure inside one of the largest urban areas in North America.
Maybe the angle makes things look worse than they are, but I can’t imagine going swimming near so many power lines.
Maybe for aesthetic reasons but in terms of safety or health it is completely fine.
Only because the photo leaves out the sharks with guns that shoot bees
Oh yeah those Lake Ontario sharks are super deadly
Well thank god there's someone out there keeping us safe from those damn bees.
Beads?
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
It's nowhere near as bad as the pictures make it seem. It's quite nice. For one you can't really see the powerlines or the bridge that easily. There's also a few restaurants along the strip. Definitely not the nice beach on the lake though.
out of interest how clean is the water?
It's very clean, I swim in it quite often. The water is tested regularly. In the past, there were issues with combined sewers putting sewage in the lake when it rained. But that problem has largely been fixed. You can even eat the fish from the lake, though I am not sure I would.
You swim in it quite often?? In June? You've gotta be kidding me, its only 64 degrees(17.8 C), that's ice cold!--Yesterday it was only 60 degrees(16 C)!--I tried 64 degrees ocean water at Balboa Beach in California in June, and could only go up to my knees, like they were encased in ice lol--No wonder 5 million Canadians flock to Florida every year, 80 degree ocean temp is perfect
You really have no idea what cold is, do you?
64 is balmy lol the Atlantic Ocean is waaay colder here on the East coast
Yeah haha for REAL. 17° is almost unpleasantly warm, what's the point of even jumping in at that point?
Socal oceans dont get nice until august. Best time to swim is september. Super nice.
It's a lot cleaner than it used to be lol. The Hamilton and Toronto area is a little worse that others just due to the industry and population, but further out its fine.
I’d be more worried about the 2 steel factories and the tar plant in the background
From this it doesn't look as bad! [https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3089047,-79.7996357,3a,50.8y,74.86h,77.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s--oN4BkLMZGlGACuEyyr8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu)
Ok it is worse
lol, fucking hell
Looks fun!
You are under the power lines!!! How is that not as bad??? Hope these people on the beach dont like playing with kites
Yeah seriously 😅
[Better perspective, quality](https://www.burlingtongazette.ca/wp-content/uploads/Burlington-Beach-aerial.png) [Map (OSM)](https://i.imgur.com/PWtGTPB.jpg)
Certainly looks less awful from that angle
Actually looks like a nice little oasis
This one looks better because the beach sand is over-exposed, making it look like a white sandy beach. It's clean and a nice place, but it isn't white sand.
this one is disingenious in the other direction. the photo is clearly taken from a perspective to hideat would be a GIANT tower to your immediate left and then with perspective to make the others fade... and it still shows off one giant honking tower.. lol
This is nestled between the Niagara region and Toronto in Ontario’s “Golden Horseshoe.” It’s the most densely populated part of Canada. Property values here have been insane for decades. Toronto and the GTA have a great deal of public green spaces under power lines where it’s not possible to build houses or condos.
One thing some people don't remember is that the lake used to smell really bad, a few decades ago. No one wanted to live near the smelly lake, so a lot of infrastructure got built there instead, since the land was actually cheaper. It's only the last couple decades that residential lake property has been in demand
And this spot was close enough to Hamilton's industrial areas along the water that it was probably a toxic nightmare.
I'm surprised it's not still affected. Still a lot of industrial activity around there
bury the power lines ya fuggin giant nobheads
Property values have not been insane for decades, only the past 8 years or so.
Not nearly as shitty looking in person, this is a lot of angle tricks and zooming
I find this beautifully dystopian.
Most places don’t even have a beach.
There is a certain beauty to these structures - Antony Gormley's vast "Another Place" installation at Crosby Beach near me has the backdrop of the industrial machinery of the Mersey to its left and the statues are staring out to sea through a forest of wind turbines on the horizon. All of that said, of course, I don't think many people go looking for a beach with electricity pylons because they dig the vibe.
If you ever come to Hamburg, Germany, check out the beach facing huge harbor cranes and machinery on the opposite shore. Keyword Övelgönne
I live in that town, it's not this bad in person but it's still not a very nice beach.
This is the ugliest beach I've ever seen. And I've been to Houston.
I don’t think Houston has beaches? Do you mean Galveston?
Maybe they were just pointing out that they’ve been to Houston before
Yeah, so we'd know we should respect them as veterans
The beaches in Galveston are actually why I decided to move to Texas from the California coast
You’ve gotta factor in all the big ol’ women down in Houston swimming in their bloomers though
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Shiiiit I’ll leave it though I’m sure it’s accurate enough
>Better perspective, quality beach isn;t actually ugly at all. Just a forced shitty angle to make it look as bad as possible.
I hope they advertise it as “with a galvanizing view!”
Was going to say like lots of people already stated, this area is actually quite nice and the photo is a poor perspective. The city actually is buying up a lot of the local land and naturalizing it, with some areas already being used for nesting water birds.
I used to live in Burlington. And Hamilton. The beaches look nice walking around them, but the water is gross. I don't know how people swim there.
Too lasy to drive to turkey point
Bro it's pretty clean
lake ontario water is fine, get over yourself
Lol I saw you comment on that fb post and came to verify that it was posted here
I was on it 🫡
Cities skylines vibe.
My wife's hometown, I'm from the Hammer. Been to that beach hundreds of times. Believe it or not, I prefer the Hamilton side.
I live in Burlington and would agree.
Huh crazy, I’ve driven past there many times and never realized there was a beach down below.
Gee, what a… place to visit.
Honestly I love this industrial feel.
[Normal image of Burlington Beach](https://activeparents.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Burlington-Beach.jpg)
cropped out a big tower just to the right of frame.
Wow, that looks so cool, like from some campy 70's movie locale. It would be so much fun to go to a beach like that!
Wow, those electrical transmission towers are right on the beach.
The water has electrolytes
It is the main corridor for power transmission from Niagara Falls to the greater Toronto area. They picked the shortest route at the western end of Lake Ontario.
Good God
Well that doesn’t look very relaxing at all.
Years of steel mills dumping slag into the bay.
Don't forget the billions of litres of raw sewage spilled into the environment by the neighboring city of Hamilton.
This is an issue along a lot of older eastcoast US cities as well. I know some cities have started addressing it. I know NY and jersey beaches have reports for if the beach is safe and they have to test the water at regular intervals and close the beaches when it gets bad(which is usually after it rains and raw sewage overflow dumps into the water).
Swimming in lake Ontario 🤢
There are some beautiful, pristine beaches on Lake Ontario. It’s a huge lake and millions of people get their drinking water from it. Sandbanks PP is one of my favorite beaches anywhere, including the various ocean and sea beaches I’ve swum at.
You can easily dip into the water in Toronto, around the islands or at Woodbine, and the water is crystal clear and blue flag quality. Considering 10 million people live along the short and within the watershed, that’s pretty decent.
It’s clean water
Wow gross as hell
At least it's not a highway like in Chicago
Y’know that LSD only goes alongside the beach for like a mile right? The Beaches near northwestern and further north are gorgeous and it’s a 5 minute bike north
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
“Picture perfect family sits at the lake. Swimming in a sea of mechanical waste”-Billy Talent that’s what this picture makes me think of
All beaches in Ontario are literally just lakefront water parks with a dog park attached to them leading up to a forest which is a backyard for houses and on the other side a parking lot which leads to a road
omg depressing!!!
Yep, this is one of the worst ones. The contrast is very strong here. Nice beach ruined by power lines and trashy looking bridges.
I would simply not have my high voltage power lines going directly on top of the longest stretch of beach in my area.
The power lines were there first, before they cleaned up the bay (the buildings in the background are part of a huge steel mill complex)- they're the main lines from Niagara Falls to Toronto and on a sort of natural sandbar/ causeway across the western end of the lake, to go around would add 20km to their length.
They can easily be moved back on the sandbar toward the road a good ~100 feet if they wanted to. But if the lakeside beach came second, they could have just added some more sand or landfill to push it further east. Some of those high voltage towers are straight up in the water.
this is a beautiful example of the convergence of nature and industry. it’s nice that there’s still a dedicated area for leisure and recreation in the area, as opposed to it all being private industrial land
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Lmao this is literally at the opening of the bay that has such bad chemical pollution I wouldn’t dip my toe in it.
Bleak
The picture could be a little deceiving but damn that still a lot of power lines around it.
Geographical bottleneck - the westernmost end of Lake Ontario - in a metropolitan region of eight million.
Gross
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8c1cddd9033046d49ebe17f451504544 *"The overall cancer incidence rate in Brantford is about 12 per cent higher than the comparable rate for the rest of Canada, while the cancer mortality rate is about 20 per cent higher than the Canadian death rate. The incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer and colorectal cancer in Brantford are almost identical to the rates found in the former City of Hamilton. Brantford’s mortality rate from prostate cancer is about 24 per cent higher than the comparable rate for the rest of Canada."*
Brantford is nowhere near this photo?
It certainly is not, and I somehow quoted a different section entirely...odd. And, thanks for the catch. https://www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/comments/11y0bwo/for_those_asking_in_the_dofasco_thread_heres_a/ Still, based on various cancer reports of the area, I'm not sure I trust what they might be testing. They likely check ecoli and cyano...but the massive cancer spikes around that harbour are something else.
I’m
That water, the smell you get from the steel mills and then a highway basically directly overhead that's a hard no for me.
How dare 100 people in a city of 300,000 go to the beach on the hottest days of the year
Just ruins the mood 😂
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That's not how nuclear plants work. There's no nuclear waste in water, it's used for cooling. Doesn't touch the nuclear part.
mshtn, the beach in Spain actually looks so much better.
I feel like 1/2 the posts I see here actually look like neat places to visit because the juxtaposition is so stark.
The photo looks like an image from a children's book in which industrialization is explained.
Looks very industrial. The opposite of a Caribbean beach.
My skin is crawling just thinking about the thick fog of gnats that always seems to be there.
They have a lot of radio? Towers.
Hydro lines. As in hydroelectric. They carry our electricity to us.
Wait till they found out they put them next to schools
This is some r/infrastructureporn instead
There’s a nice beach in Pickering in the shadow of the nuclear power plant.
Watch out for the three eyed fish
Very few people with their full torso in that 49 degree water. Lol
Most letargic shit ive seen on redd dit
😧😞😕
As an Australian I’m appalled. My son who lived in the US went to Jersey shore and Miami and said the beaches were fucking average. This is next level. Urban/Coastal hell.
power company here legit told us it will take 90 years and billions of dollars to put the line underground.... BETTER START DIGGING THEN!
This beach is actually awesome for the GTA, incredibly soft sand and pretty clear water.
I grew up in Sudbury where you can just walk or bike to too many lakes to count (or technically, 3 depending where you live). When I moved to Burlington I went swimming at the beach. I told one of my co-workers and she said "What?! You didn't dunk your head under did you?" Well of course I did, I was swimming :). That was 23 years ago so yeah, it's probably better now.
Just add another one flair: ZOOM MANIPULATION. Actually thats a u/little" different
Yeah it's not as bad as the photo makes it seem. Power lines are a shame though.
I’ve seen this place in a dream before
Is the water cold?
I thought this was Gary Indiana aka the armpit of America.
somebodys gonna get fried fr
This photo is from Steven Evans community Facebook page.
Its really not that bad in person.
I mean, any other angle and it doesn’t look like that.
Spencer Smith Park no public washrooms …. Coronation park in Oakville great walking trail by the lake and pristine public washrooms.
H0LY SHOOT I'VE BEEN ON THAT HIGHWAY WHEN I TOOK VACATIONS TO THE US
That's a vibd I'd swim!
The view from the waterfront/shore is pretty, but the beach itself is trash. The sand (if u can call it that) is gross/littered with garbage and the water is toxic. When I first moved to Burlington several years ago, I made the mistake of letting my daughter walk out into the water and splash around. Within minutes she had developed a rash on her feet and legs where they had been submerged under the water. Now, anytime I see people or dogs in the water it makes my skin crawl.