{"id":17567,"date":"2016-06-22T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2016-06-22T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T13:50:43","slug":"car-free-section-of-niagara-parkway-on-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/car-free-section-of-niagara-parkway-on-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Car-free section of Niagara Parkway on Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/06\/21\/portion-of-niagara-parkway-closed-on-canada-day\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A portion of the Niagara Parkway will be a car-free zone on Canada Day.<\/p>\n<p>And it could be something the Niagara Parks Commission considers more often.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say regular because it&#8217;s right in the heart of Queen Victoria Park, it&#8217;s sort of the centre, so there are reasons why it can&#8217;t happen all of the time, but certainly on special occasions it&#8217;s worthy of consideration,&#8221; said NPC chairwoman Janice Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>A stretch of the parkway from Clifton Hill to Fraser Hill will be off limits to cars between 7 a.m. and midnight on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The parks commission encourages visitors to bring their bicycles, enjoy a horse-and-carriage ride and take advantage of the Wego bus service, which will operate on its regular route schedule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A portion of the Niagara Parkway will be a car-free zone on Canada Day. And it could be something the Niagara Parks Commission considers more often. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say regular because it&#8217;s right in the heart of Queen Victoria Park, it&#8217;s sort of the centre, so there are reasons why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,601,52],"tags":[1664,59,10930,3827,41,1139,99,297,255,7418],"class_list":["post-17567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-canada-day","tag-clifton-hill","tag-fraser-hill","tag-janice-thomson","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-npc","tag-wego"],"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\/17567","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=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}