The Bond area, once a terminal for docks and a lane for lovers, was closed in 2007 as the city planned to make it "as charming as the Champs Elysee in Paris." Now throngs of visitors can lean against riverfront barriers, where once stood concrete walls that permitted a less-open view of the river. Now people can walk along the broad new promenade. The promenade between a complex of high-rise buildings and the Huangpu River has been widen and the 11-lane surface road has been cut down to four lanes to make room for pedestrians after a 6-lane new tunnel opened beneath the Bund.