Once an essential artery feeding the area's citrus and flower fields, the canal now traverses residential neighborhoods that have replaced farms.  The public art enhancements have improved the comfort and safety of residents who use the trail daily to walk, run and ride their bicycles or horses, while strengthening its connections to trails citywide.

The enhancements include a repaved path and new trail heads announcing the presence of the Highline Canal at major intersections along the trail. Amenities include new pedestrian bridges, for easy access between neighborhoods on both sides of the canal, and sculptural seating featuring cast iron buckets, wooden planks and rocks that recall the farms that the Highline helped to create. The artists titled the project The Zanjero's Line -- Spanish for "overseer of the mother ditch" – to honor the workers who tend the canal and control the flow of water to adjacent fields and properties.  ​