{"id":17424,"date":"2016-05-24T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2016-05-22T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T02:33:08","slug":"glynn-work-zones-welcoming-niagara-falls-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/24\/glynn-work-zones-welcoming-niagara-falls-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"GLYNN: Work zones welcoming Niagara Falls tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The welcome mat is out for another tourist season but neither side of the border seems dressed up for the occasion. In fact, at a glance you have the impression neither of the cataract cities was expecting company.<\/p>\n

For starters, Terrapin Point on Goat Island that overlooks the Horseshoe Falls is a mess. Even near the Buffalo Avenue entrance to the island, construction and warning signs are more prevalent then helpful directional markers.<\/p>\n

Not much has changed around One Niagara either, with the overall scene reminiscent of honky-tonk atmosphere on New Jersey boardwalks. And motorists need to slow down or they\u2019re likely to hit a flag-waving parking lot attendant trying the lure them into an all-day spot for $10. It\u2019s hardly what a visitor should encounter at the doorstep to the nation\u2019s oldest state park. If you listen closely, you might even hear Fredrick Law Olmsted spinning above the din.<\/p>\n

Across the bridge \u2014 if the visitor from the U.S. is lucky enough to have a passport and some other ID \u2014 a massive redevelopment of a 9-acre Clifton Hill site is under way, set to open in 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Gazette: The welcome mat is out for another tourist season but neither side of the border seems dressed up for the occasion. In fact, at a glance you have the impression neither of the cataract cities was expecting company. For starters, Terrapin Point on Goat Island that overlooks the Horseshoe Falls is…<\/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":[29,54,2,601],"tags":[5620,59,7327,651,561,10744,4086],"class_list":["post-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-buffalo-avenue","tag-clifton-hill","tag-frederick-law-olmsted","tag-goat-island","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-one-niagara","tag-terrapin-point"],"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\/17424","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=17424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}