{"id":17945,"date":"2016-08-17T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17945"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:20:00","slug":"connecting-fallsview-victoria-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/connecting-fallsview-victoria-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Fallsview, Victoria districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/09\/better-connecting-fallsview-victoria-districts\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city is looking at how the Fallsview and Victoria Centre districts could be better connected in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at traffic improvements and how we can make turning movements at the intersection of Ferry Street and Fallsview (Boulevard) safer for pedestrians to cross, and also to make the traffic movements easier for routing services like the Wego,\u201d said Geoff Holman, the city\u2019s director of municipal works.<\/p>\n<p>Holman said at first, the city was just looking at replacing a watermain in the area. But after receiving comments from businesses, municipal staff began to look at the condition of the road, traffic safety, and it \u201ckind of evolved into a larger project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve examined a number of different alternatives to make improvements there, and one of the alternatives that we\u2019re bringing forward will be to look at making it a three-legged intersection, so it\u2019ll be like a T-intersection (involving Fallsview Boulevard, Ferry Street and Buchanan Avenue),\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The city is looking at how the Fallsview and Victoria Centre districts could be better connected in the future. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at traffic improvements and how we can make turning movements at the intersection of Ferry Street and Fallsview (Boulevard) safer for pedestrians to cross, and also to make 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":[29,2],"tags":[11097,58,814,1624,11096,1336,1139,2581,4102,3575,9531,7418],"class_list":["post-17945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buchanan-avenue","tag-fallsview","tag-fallsview-boulevard","tag-ferry-street","tag-geoff-holman","tag-intersection","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-pedestrians","tag-staff","tag-victoria-centre","tag-watermain","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\/17945","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=17945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17945\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}