{"id":20331,"date":"2017-07-06T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20331"},"modified":"2017-07-06T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:46:21","slug":"it-was-a-never-ending-sea-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/it-was-a-never-ending-sea-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a never-ending sea of people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7408207--it-was-a-never-ending-sea-of-people-\/\">Niagara This Week<\/a> (includes photo and video):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city needs to do better after an estimated 80,000 people choked off travel in the city on Canada Day, Mayor Jim Diodati says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never had a transportation plan like we do for New Year\u2019s Eve or did for the Wallenda walk,\u201d he said after the large crowds made movement throughout the city impossible. \u201cWe had a lot of opportunity to be prepared for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook was lit up with stories from residents and visitors complaining of trips normally measured in minutes instead being measured in hours. Other complaints included those from residents living near the tourist areas being unable to leave their homes or welcome guests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week (includes photo and video): The city needs to do better after an estimated 80,000 people choked off travel in the city on Canada Day, Mayor Jim Diodati says. \u201cWe never had a transportation plan like we do for New Year\u2019s Eve or did for the Wallenda walk,\u201d he said after 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_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":[26,2],"tags":[11775,1664,12693,603,720,451,5673,214,3346],"class_list":["post-20331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-canada-150","tag-canada-day","tag-complaints","tag-jim-diodati","tag-new-years-eve","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-traffic","tag-visitors"],"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\/20331","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=20331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20332,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions\/20332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}