{"id":995,"date":"2017-10-26T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:25:18","slug":"city-has-run-out-of-construction-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"City has run out of construction barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thumbnail-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-998\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thumbnail-1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thumbnail-1-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thumbnail-1-411x300.jpg 411w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thumbnail-1.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The inevitable has happened. After starting a new construction project on Tecumseh Road East this past week the city of Windsor has completely depleted its inventory of orange\u00a0and black\u00a0construction barrels.\u00a0\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any barrels available for any new projects.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur inventory has been dangerously low over the last few months\u201d said city councillor Frank Edwards on Thursday, adding \u201cwho could have predicted that starting dozens and dozens of construction projects and finishing none of them would result in a barrel shortage? Now with various projects underway throughout the city the use of construction barrels at any new sites has become a problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards advised that the city does have a back-up plan \u201cIf necessary we\u2019re going to paint garbage cans orange and black and roll them into the street\u00a0and weather permitting we\u2019re going to have students dress up in orange and black suits and stand in intersections where the barrels would be.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course the students will get volunteer hour credit for helping out.\u00a0\u00a0 So this is really a win-win for everyone involved\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The inevitable has happened. After starting a new construction project on Tecumseh Road East this past week the city of Windsor has completely depleted its inventory of orange\u00a0and black\u00a0construction barrels.\u00a0\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any barrels available for any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=995\">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-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}