From Niagara This Week:
The city’s People Mover project, planned to move riders from one end of the tourist area to the other, is still not dead, although a new crop of obstacles is forcing a shortening of its route.
No longer moving forward with a looped route, council gave the go-ahead to launch studies on a shorter, linear system on top of the escarpment as a first phase. The city will have to decide whether to send out a request for proposals by the end of the year, either moving ahead with the phase or putting an end to the People Mover once and for all.
“We believe you need to have a starting point,” said David Schram, a consultant working on the project. “If that is successful, we anticipate the next phases will follow.