Engineering for Victoria Avenue work approved

From the Niagara Falls Review: The city is moving ahead with planning for phase two of the streetscape revitalization along Victoria Avenue. Council approved $365,000 for engineering design work for the next phase, and city staff will prepare construction cost estimates for council’s consideration in the 2017 budget. The first phase — a $3.8-million revitalization…

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Victoria Avenue work requires extra $230K

From the Niagara Falls Review: Council approved an additional $230,000 to complete the first phase of a streetscape project along Victoria Avenue. The extra expense will come out of the city’s capital holding reserve fund and will address unanticipated intersection work, as well as additional consultant services. Earlier this year, council entered into a cost-sharing…

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Concerns MTO project will impact tourist traffic

From the Niagara Falls Review: City and tourism officials remain hopeful the Ministry of Transportation will do everything possible to mitigate the impact a proposed road and bridge project along Highway 420 will have on visitors this spring. “We don’t want to give people from the GTA any reason to avoid Niagara Falls, and long…

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Businesses excited for Victoria Avenue revamp

From the Niagara Falls Review: It has been a long-time coming. Businesses along Victoria Avenue say they are looking forward to the streetscape improvements approved recently by Niagara Falls city council. “It’s going to improve the look of the street and I’m all for it,” said Andrew Vergalito, owner of the Italian Ice Cream business…

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Highway 420 ‘a mess’: Falls mayor

From the Niagara Falls Review: Council is petitioning the province to properly maintain Highway 420, one of the main tourist arteries into Niagara Falls. The appearance of the highway, which connects the QEW to the city, has been a thorn in city council’s side since Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation did some highway work in 2003….

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Steering in the right direction

From the Niagara Falls Review: A Niagara Falls councillor wants to steer visitors in the right … or left direction. Coun. Wayne Thomson wants the city, the Region, the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission and the Ministry of Transportation to work together to allow motorists who cross the Rainbow Bridge to be able to make left…

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Bodies coming to Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: The cure for Niagara’s tourism blues this summer might be a bunch of dead bodies. If Linus Hand’s hunch pays off , they’ll come by the busload to see them. After months searching for the right venue, Hand is bringing the world-renowned Bodies … The Exhibition to the former Gerbers…

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