{"id":2643,"date":"2008-03-03T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/tourism-hopes-ride-on-state-budget\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:53:48","slug":"tourism-hopes-ride-on-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/tourism-hopes-ride-on-state-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism hopes ride on state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1311\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A decrepit Goat Island pedestrian bridge and a leaking roof in the visitor center at Prospect Point are just two repair jobs in a $650 million backlog in park improvements statewide, State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash said at a tourism meeting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ash hailed Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed $100 million capital works program for state parks, 20 percent of which would go to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153critical needs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Western New York.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by the State Legislature, it would be the single largest investment in the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parks system, Ash said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tourism translates into jobs and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the governor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head is,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ash told more than 100 tourism leaders and elected officials at a breakfast meeting in the Conference Center Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: A decrepit Goat Island pedestrian bridge and a leaking roof in the visitor center at Prospect Point are just two repair jobs in a $650 million backlog in park improvements statewide, State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash said at a tourism meeting Friday. Ash hailed Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed $100 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/2643","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}