{"id":10953,"date":"2012-04-23T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:30:45","slug":"and-away-wego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/and-away-wego\/","title":{"rendered":"And away&#8230; WEGO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/1331228\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The replacement for the aging Peoplemover transit system in Niagara Falls now has a name \u2014 WEGO.<\/p>\n<p>The brand is meant to be a fun pairing of the words \u201cwe,\u201d meaning friendship and social activity with \u201cgo\u201d to emphasize adventure and exploration. The name was unveiled Thursday in a joint statement by the federal and provincial governments, the Niagara Parks Commission and the City of Niagara Falls. The name was chosen, the statement read, because it easily distinguishes the new Niagara Falls Visitor Transportation System from the conventional municipal system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWEGO is another step forward for improving bus service in Niagara Falls,\u201d said Niagara Falls MP and Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson, speaking on behalf of the federal government. \u201cThe new system will be a great benefit to the area; it will support the local economy, provide residents and visitors with greater transit options, reduce traffic congestion and support better air quality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: The replacement for the aging Peoplemover transit system in Niagara Falls now has a name \u2014 WEGO. The brand is meant to be a fun pairing of the words \u201cwe,\u201d meaning friendship and social activity with \u201cgo\u201d to emphasize adventure and exploration. The name was unveiled Thursday in a joint statement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,49],"tags":[963,1873,41,99,451,6486,7262,2045,7263,2370,6073],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-economy","tag-federal-government","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-peoplemover","tag-provincial-governments","tag-rob-nicholson","tag-transit-options","tag-transit-system","tag-visitor-transportation-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}