People Mover
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Talks aimed at creating an integrated people mover system are underway.
After parting ways more than a year ago, city and Niagara Parks officials are back at the table discussing opportunities to create a single, seamless transit system to link tourist districts with areas currently serviced by the NPC’s familiar green-and-white people [...]
From a Marketwire press release:
he City of Niagara Falls will soon benefit from a new bus system thanks to a joint investment by the Governments of Canada and Ontario, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., Member of Parliament for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable George Smitherman, Deputy Premier [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
A major transportation project that has been stalled for years got a fresh injection of fuel Monday.
At a press conference at the Via rail station on Bridge Street, Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman announced the province will contribute $25 million toward the development of a new people mover bus system linking [...]
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From Niagara This Week:
The federal government has issued the city an extension to apply for a $25-million grant for its version of a people mover system.
The deadline to submit an application was June but Mayor Ted Salci recently reported he secured a one-year extension to allow for more time to prepare a business plan, which [...]
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From Niagara This Week:
The plan for a monorail in the city in the form of the Niagara Falls People Mover has been stalled on the tracks.
Council gave former CAO John MacDonald the go-ahead Monday to move forward with a people mover system by bus operated by Niagara Transit, as opposed to a monorail idealized for [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The monorail dream is dead.
The city’s people mover system will be a rubber-tired bus system as a result of a council decision Monday to abandon the decades-old idea of building a fixed-link public transit system to serve the tourism areas.
“This thing has been going on so long, I think we’re all [...]
Someone wrote a letter to the editor of the Niagara Falls Review:
I have listened for quite some time to the pros and cons about the proposed people mover system in Niagara Falls. I really do not understand why we need one…
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Backed into a corner by the federal government, the City of Niagara Falls has to move ahead fairly quickly with its long dreamed of people-mover system
or forget about Ottawa’s $25-million pledge to help out.
City hall learned recently that unless there is an agreement in place by June 2009 to get the [...]
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From the Niagara Falls Review:
Faced with a use-it-or-lose-it proposition from Ottawa, Niagara Falls council plans to pick a private partner and move toward construction of its long-awaited people mover system.
Much more delay would see the federal government take a $25-million grant off the table.
“We are at crunch time We’ve got to get moving on this,” [...]
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