{"id":7214,"date":"2009-09-03T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2009-09-02T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:33:24","slug":"how-bureacracy-and-bickering-brought-down-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/how-bureacracy-and-bickering-brought-down-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bureacracy and Bickering Brought Down Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/article\/how-bureacracy-and-bickering-brought-down-niagara-falls\">Governing.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Down an overgrown path along the bluffs above the Niagara River gorge, a couple of miles downstream from the breathtaking cataract that gives Niagara Falls, New York, its name, there is a long-forgotten abutment from which city leaders think they can see the city\u2019s future. Remarkably, it looks a great deal like the past.<\/p>\n<p>Not the immediate past of Rust Belt decay and abandonment, or the unseemly history of industrial pollutants that seeped into the river and poisoned the earth. Instead, beyond the abutment\u2019s edge lies a sanctuary for birds that wheel above the undisturbed waters far below, a riot of native greenery climbing the steep banks, and far in the distance, the eternal plume of mist from the Falls.<\/p>\n<p>If you knew nothing about Niagara Falls, this is the view you might expect the city to offer a visitor. It is a view that Mayor Paul Dyster believes his city must be able to provide if it is to have any hope of reviving. \u201cWe have to develop a niche of the tourism market that plays to our strengths. And what we have over here,\u201d he says, \u201cis a close association with nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a problem. As sublime as the view of the gorge might be, Dyster wistfully calls this stretch of the river \u201cThe Falls No One Gets To See.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an excellent article that talks about how Niagara Falls, NY got to where it is, and what needs to be done to improve. I highly recommend it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Governing.com: Down an overgrown path along the bluffs above the Niagara River gorge, a couple of miles downstream from the breathtaking cataract that gives Niagara Falls, New York, its name, there is a long-forgotten abutment from which city leaders think they can see the city\u2019s future. Remarkably, it looks a great deal like 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":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":[2,23],"tags":[1996,1995,1994,10407,144,1992,660,1993],"class_list":["post-7214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-night-life","tag-cataract","tag-mayor-dyster","tag-mayor-paul-dyster","tag-niagara-falls-new-york","tag-niagara-river","tag-niagara-river-gorge","tag-paul-dyster","tag-rust-belt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","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=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}