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Why didn we just leave the landscape that grew on the High Line after trains stopped running?

April 26, 2017high landscape leave line running stopped trains

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Why didn we just leave the landscape that grew on the High Line after trains stopped running?

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After Friends of the High Line, in partnership with the City, was successful in saving the structure, an environmental survey found that removal of everything on the High Line down to the steel and concrete structure was necessary. In order to safely accommodate the public, the High Line was redesigned into the safe public space it is today.