{"id":7703,"date":"2009-11-25T14:13:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/group-wants-town-to-put-the-brakes-on-speedway-project-in-fort-erie\/"},"modified":"2009-11-25T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:19:40","slug":"group-wants-town-to-put-the-brakes-on-speedway-project-in-fort-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/group-wants-town-to-put-the-brakes-on-speedway-project-in-fort-erie\/","title":{"rendered":"Group wants town to put the brakes on speedway project in Fort Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2187941\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of Niagara residents have raised the caution flag over the proposed Fort Erie motor speedway project.<\/p>\n<p>A grass-roots organization, known as CARS (Citizens Against Racing Speedway) warns the proposal will not be an economic windfall for the town, rather it will be its &#8220;worst nightmare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The town and the Regional Municipality of Niagara is currently looking at an application to build a NASCAR-style speedway on an 800 acre site near the Queen Elizabeth Way between Gilmore and Bowen Roads.<\/p>\n<p>The auto racing complex proposal put forward by an investment group includes grandstand seating for up to 100,000 people, an oval track and road course and other developments including a research and development centre overseen by McMaster University.<\/p>\n<p>CARS, which formed a few months ago after the town held a meeting to discuss the proposal, says the development would have a detrimental impact on the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A group of Niagara residents have raised the caution flag over the proposed Fort Erie motor speedway project. A grass-roots organization, known as CARS (Citizens Against Racing Speedway) warns the proposal will not be an economic windfall for the town, rather it will be its &#8220;worst nightmare.&#8221; The town and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":[611,2,612],"tags":[2057,2002,2525,570,2527,2061,617,2526,2524,2523],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-nascar","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-race-track","tag-bowen-road","tag-cars","tag-citizens-against-racing-speedway","tag-fort-erie","tag-gilmore-road","tag-motor-speedway","tag-qew","tag-queen-elizabeth-way","tag-regional-municipality-of-niagara","tag-speedway"],"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\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}