{"id":7337,"date":"2009-09-29T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:38:33","slug":"50-million-for-new-people-mover-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/50-million-for-new-people-mover-system\/","title":{"rendered":"$50 million for new people-mover system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1772489\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A major transportation project that has been stalled for years got a fresh injection of fuel Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference at the Via rail station on Bridge Street, Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman announced the province will contribute $25 million toward the development of a new people mover bus system linking the city&#8217;s major tourist districts with Niagara Parks Commission properties.<\/p>\n<p>The money put up by Queen&#8217;s Park matches the $25 million pledged by the federal government in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Smitherman, who is the provincial energy and infrastructure minister, said the time was right for Queen&#8217;s Park to &#8220;step up to the plate&#8221; as an equal partner with Ottawa on the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is that until today, the province of Ontario has not been an equal partner with the government of Canada in what is a signature investment here in Niagara Falls,&#8221; Smitherman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A major transportation project that has been stalled for years got a fresh injection of fuel Monday. At a press conference at the Via rail station on Bridge Street, Ontario Deputy Premier George Smitherman announced the province will contribute $25 million toward the development of a new people mover bus&#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":[29,601],"tags":[2146,2150,1873,951,99,538,2149,1149,2148,2147,1657],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-bridge-street","tag-bus-system","tag-federal-government","tag-george-smitherman","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-people-mover","tag-province-of-ontario","tag-queens-park","tag-tourist-districts","tag-transportation-project","tag-via-rail"],"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\/7337","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=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}