{"id":8667,"date":"2010-06-18T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:27:41","slug":"final-bridge-approval-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/final-bridge-approval-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Final bridge approval nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2626754\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After nearly 20 years of often acrimonious debate, final approval for a new bridge across the upper Niagara River is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>But there are a few more steps that need to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Rienas, general manager of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, says he believes the agency will be in a position to submit a final environmental impact statement on the expansion project to U.S. regulatory authorities for approval by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Before that happens, the same document will be submitted to the project&#8217;s partners, the Town of Fort Erie and the City of Buffalo, for their consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping to have the (final environmental impact statement) in to the (municipalities) in September and a record of decision by the end of the year,&#8221; said Rienas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After nearly 20 years of often acrimonious debate, final approval for a new bridge across the upper Niagara River is just around the corner. But there are a few more steps that need to be completed. Ron Rienas, general manager of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, says&#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_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":[382,2],"tags":[3818,163,450,3820,570,3821,144,3816,3822,3817,3819],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-approval","tag-bridge","tag-buffalo","tag-city-of-buffalo","tag-fort-erie","tag-municipalities","tag-niagara-river","tag-public-bridge-authority","tag-regulatory-authorities","tag-ron-rienas","tag-town-of-fort-erie"],"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\/8667","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=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}