{"id":986,"date":"2017-10-18T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:27:31","slug":"city-councillor-proposes-rebuilding-peabody-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"City councillor proposes rebuilding Peabody Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture3333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-989\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture3333-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture3333-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Capture3333.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; City councillor Frank Edwards announced\u00a0his plans\u00a0this week\u00a0to submit a proposal to city council\u00a0to re-build the Peabody Bridge on Riverside Drive at the corner of Riverside Drive East and Devonshire Road.\u00a0\u00a0 The original Peabody Bridge, a short\u00a0overpass of railroad tracks near Hiram Walkers,\u00a0was demolished in 1992 to allow for multiple lanes of traffic to proceed on the riverfront.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the street is flat bend in the road beside the Walker Power Building. Imagine if we could re-build a giant two-lane bridge right in front of the Power Building\u201d Edwards said while describing his vision \u201cWith all this talk of restoring street cars and remembering Windsor\u2019s history I feel the time is right for us to re-build the Peabody Bridge and bring back the two-lane charm of Riverside Drive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom everything I hear at the council meetings we have all kinds of extra money floating around these days. We\u2019re putting up Christmas lights in Jackson Park, restoring an old street car so we can buy ice cream cones from the street car and all kinds of other fun projects so I think we should embrace our history and rebuild the Peabody Bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe we can sell ice cream cones there too.\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t love buying frozen treats from historical sites?\u201d asked the ice-cream loving councilman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON &#8211; City councillor Frank Edwards announced\u00a0his plans\u00a0this week\u00a0to submit a proposal to city council\u00a0to re-build the Peabody Bridge on Riverside Drive at the corner of Riverside Drive East and Devonshire Road.\u00a0\u00a0 The original Peabody Bridge, a short\u00a0overpass of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=986\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}