{"id":9739,"date":"2011-05-02T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:52:33","slug":"it-feels-more-like-a-park-than-a-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/it-feels-more-like-a-park-than-a-parkway\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It feels more like a park than a Parkway&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3103615\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The inaugural Car-Free Day on the Niagara Parkway wasn&#8217;t free of suggestions from both tourists and locals who want to see the event evolve from its humble beginnings Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is awesome,&#8221; said Mike Sherman, a cyclist from Montreal who was riding down the empty Parkway toward the Horseshoe Falls with fellow Montrealer Jen Zwarych.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great,&#8221; Zwarych said, adding it was their first time in Niagara Falls. &#8220;It&#8217;s a little empty though. We&#8217;ve never been here with the cars, but if the cars are louder than the falls it would definitely make it less cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the Niagara Parks Commission on Sunday shut down the Niagara Parkway to vehicle traffic, except the NPC&#8217;s people-mover buses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The inaugural Car-Free Day on the Niagara Parkway wasn&#8217;t free of suggestions from both tourists and locals who want to see the event evolve from its humble beginnings Sunday. &#8220;This is awesome,&#8221; said Mike Sherman, a cyclist from Montreal who was riding down the empty Parkway toward the Horseshoe Falls&#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":[2,27],"tags":[5406,5403,909,5407,2315,5405,99,297,255,538,84],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-car-free-day","tag-cyclists","tag-horseshoefalls","tag-jen-zwarych","tag-locals","tag-mike-sherman","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-npc","tag-people-mover","tag-tourists"],"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\/9739","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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}