{"id":16316,"date":"2013-07-25T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16316"},"modified":"2013-07-25T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:25:40","slug":"2013-a-big-year-for-niagara-falls-bridge-commission-lewiston-queenston-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/2013-a-big-year-for-niagara-falls-bridge-commission-lewiston-queenston-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 a big year for Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, Lewiston-Queenston Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/lockportjournal.com\/local\/x1996080739\/2013-a-big-year-for-Niagara-Falls-Bridge-Commission-Lewiston-Queenston-Bridge\">Lockport Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission will celebrate two milestones this year, the 75th anniversary of its founding and the 50th year of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1962, the Lewiston-Queenston spans 370 feet above the Niagara River and measures 1,600 feet in length. It connects the 1-190 (Niagara Expressway) on the U.S. side with Highway 405 in Ontario. In the overall scheme, it is a vital link between the State Thruway and the Queen Elizabeth Way. To this day, it has the fifth highest volume of commercial traffic between the U.S. and Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buffalo News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130720\/CITYANDREGION\/130729902\">Lewiston-Queenston Bridge celebrating 50th anniversary <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lockport Journal: The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission will celebrate two milestones this year, the 75th anniversary of its founding and the 50th year of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge. Built in 1962, the Lewiston-Queenston spans 370 feet above the Niagara River and measures 1,600 feet in length. It connects the 1-190 (Niagara Expressway) on the&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[382,54,2],"tags":[9086,1237,9087,9085,3552,9084,41,4539,144,9088],"class_list":["post-16316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-75th-anniversary","tag-canada","tag-commercial-traffic","tag-highway-405","tag-lewiston-queenston-bridge","tag-lockport-journal","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-bridge","tag-niagara-river","tag-state-thruway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316","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=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}