{"id":8732,"date":"2010-07-01T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2010-07-01T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:32:51","slug":"city-npc-closing-in-on-people-mover-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/city-npc-closing-in-on-people-mover-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"City, NPC closing in on People Mover deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2648347\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls council and the Niagara Parks Commission appear to be closing in on a deal to operate some kind of joint-venture People Mover System, as they face a June 30 deadline to take advantage of $50 million in government assistance or lose it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re down to the wire,&#8221; Mayor Ted Salci said Tuesday afternoon, a day after councillors authorized him to execute a deal if one can be reached Wednesday. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t signed anything yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The authorization council gave the mayor Monday is a sign the city wants to be ready in the event an arrangement is worked out to create a new transit system that will run on both NPCowned property and on city streets in the tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling we should be able to announce something shortly that will bring some smiles to people&#8217;s faces.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls council and the Niagara Parks Commission appear to be closing in on a deal to operate some kind of joint-venture People Mover System, as they face a June 30 deadline to take advantage of $50 million in government assistance or lose it. &#8220;We&#8217;re down to the wire,&#8221; Mayor&#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":[2,49],"tags":[10410,99,255,538,856,2017,2370],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-people-mover","tag-ted-salci","tag-tourism-sector","tag-transit-system"],"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\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}