From Niagara This Week:
Pressure has been placed on council to either get the People Mover project going, or stop it completely.
City councilors discussed the plan Monday after receiving a letter from the feds stating funding would be withdrawn from the project if not put into place by June 2009.
The People Mover project, which is separate from another Niagara Parks Commission service of the same name, was planned to extend from the Rainbow Bridge to Marineland, linking attractions along the way with a looped route, taking riders through Niagara Parks land and along the Niagara Parkway.
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The city spent millions to obtain the railway lands specifically as a transportation corridor from downtown to Marineland. It (presumably a monorail) would have gone right thru Fallsview Casino. That is no longer possible as the casino left no provision for it in their final plans (I’m sure they got sick of waiting), leaving us with 2 separate sections, basically making the rail lands useless as a transportation corridor.
So now, after many studies and delays, they will have to go the bus/trolley option or loose the $25 million. Now, Niagara Transit (which is owned by the city) runs the Falls Shuttle routes in the summer, which essentially does the same thing that this People Mover would. The only difference would seem to be that they would buy some sort of easily recognizable vehicles specifically for the Clifton Hill to Marineland route. The one advantage of this is that the route can be expanded or altered at any time with little cost. The down side is what Las Vegas has discovered. They have 2 roadway systems that run up and down the Strip (the Deuce -double decker buses, and Trolleys) that are very inexpensive and would seem to be ideal. However, they operate on Las Vegas Blvd., which, like the roads in our tourist areas, has very heavy traffic, and they stop at almost every single hotel (as hotel owners here would demand), making it an excruciatingly slow ride to go a short distance. New visitors may use it once, but usually don’t bother again.
I guess, if they are getting $25 million handed to them, the city might as well use it, but it just seems like it will be a very poor finish to what was supposed to be something special.