{"id":2945,"date":"2008-05-12T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2008-05-12T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:41:10","slug":"people-mover-restarted-ten-years-on-council-looks-at-revised-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/people-mover-restarted-ten-years-on-council-looks-at-revised-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"People mover restarted; Ten years on, council looks at revised plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1416\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Half a people mover might be better than none.<\/p>\n<p>After 10 years of trying to develop a mass-transit system to shuttle people through the busiest tourist areas, city council will consider going ahead with the just the top portion of what was originally to be a 10-kilometre loop between Bender Street and Marineland.<\/p>\n<p>A report going to tonight&#8217;s community services committee meeting recommends a &#8220;phased approach&#8221; to the people mover project.<\/p>\n<p>It suggests the city focus on building the section along the top of the escarpment first, from Clifton Hill to the Rapidsview parking area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although a fully looped system is the preferred approach by all partners in the project, it is generally concluded &#8230; that a fully looped system is a longer-term goal for the project,&#8221; the report by city chief administrative officer John MacDonald states.<\/p>\n<p>If council accepts the report, the city will move ahead without the Niagara Parks Commission as a partner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Half a people mover might be better than none. After 10 years of trying to develop a mass-transit system to shuttle people through the busiest tourist areas, city council will consider going ahead with the just the top portion of what was originally to be a 10-kilometre loop between Bender&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","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\/2945","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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}