{"id":7764,"date":"2009-12-03T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2009-12-03T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:50:22","slug":"table-rock-changes-have-improved-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/table-rock-changes-have-improved-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"TABLE ROCK CHANGES HAVE IMPROVED SAFETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2204036\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The gateway to Niagara Falls from the Falls Incline and parking lot has been at the same location for more than a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s different now? Pedestrians are now delivered to the second floor of Table Rock, instead of the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>Why? For public safety and accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the renovations, in order to gain access to Table Rock it was necessary to descend a flight of stairs or navigate a ramp that did not meet accessibility standards.<\/p>\n<p>This delivered you to the edge of a road which during the summer months carries as much traffic as any regional arterial road in Niagara and more than most.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists and pedestrians found the traffic signals in the area confusing. The mingling of tens of thousands of pedestrians and vehicles simply wasn&#8217;t safe by today&#8217;s standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The gateway to Niagara Falls from the Falls Incline and parking lot has been at the same location for more than a quarter of a century. So what&#8217;s different now? Pedestrians are now delivered to the second floor of Table Rock, instead of the first floor. Why? For public safety&#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],"tags":[2580,2582,2581,2583,374,327,2584],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-crosswalk","tag-motorists","tag-pedestrians","tag-stairs","tag-table-rock","tag-table-rock-place","tag-traffic-signals"],"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\/7764","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=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}