{"id":9802,"date":"2015-02-11T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:43:08","slug":"comparisons-not-apt-for-mythical-downtown-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/comparisons-not-apt-for-mythical-downtown-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparisons not apt for \u201cmythical\u201d downtown core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the comment attributed to Mayor Dawe in your January 29, 2015 issue. Regarding the proposed Yonge Street parking overhaul, I quote: \u201cThe idea was sparked on a recent visit to Niagara Falls\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nMayor Dawe said what he saw encouraged pedestrian traffic and, after talks with many local business owners, there was support here as for something similar.<br \/>\nIn my opinion, to compare downtown traffic situation in a world renowned tourist city like Niagara Falls to the traffic in the \u201cmythical\u201d downtown core of Aurora is a bit of a stretch.<br \/>\nWith a high rate of turnover in retail occupancy over the years, can the downtown core location provide a viable economic and sustainable opportunity for the retail sector?<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCasimir Szuber<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring to the comment attributed to Mayor Dawe in your January 29, 2015 issue. Regarding the proposed Yonge Street parking overhaul, I quote: \u201cThe idea was sparked on a recent visit to Niagara Falls\u2026\u201d Mayor Dawe said what he saw encouraged pedestrian traffic and, after talks with many local business owners, there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}