{"id":6872,"date":"2016-01-11T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:27:32","slug":"ndp-joint-statment-on-nipigon-river-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/11\/ndp-joint-statment-on-nipigon-river-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP Joint Statement on Nipigon River Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDP joint statement on damaged Nipigon River Bridge from Northern Development Critic Michael Mantha, and NDP Transportation Critic Wayne Gates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cThe failure of Nipigon River Bridge shows the Liberal government\u2019s mismanagement of Northern Ontario\u2019s roads and highways. The $106 million Nipigon River Bridge has been open for less than two months, and it failed in its first encounter with a northern Ontario winter. Thank goodness no one was seriously injured or died.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The bridge is the transport lifeline for Northern communities and for commerce across the province. The closure of the bridge separated families and workers throughout Northern Ontario. Now with only partial repair, the faulty bridge is seriously hampering movement of families, workers and commerce throughout Northern Ontario and the province,\u201d said Wayne Gates, MPP for Niagara Falls and the NDP\u2019s Transportation critic. <\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cMany companies in Northern Ontario depend on the bridge to transport product across the country. This will hurt industry and many small communities will be economically impacted with less motorists passing through. Northerners deserve answers now from this government about when Nipigon River Bridge will be fully operational and safe for use. Right now, the Liberal government\u2019s infrastructure plan for Northern Ontario seems to be: \u2018drive through the United States,\u201d said Michael Mantha, MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin and the NDP\u2019s Northern Development and Mines critic. <\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Northern Development Critic Michael Mantha, and NDP Transportation Critic Wayne Gates<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP joint statement on damaged Nipigon River Bridge from Northern Development Critic Michael Mantha, and NDP Transportation Critic Wayne Gates. \u201cThe failure of Nipigon River Bridge shows the Liberal government\u2019s mismanagement of Northern Ontario\u2019s roads and highways. The $106 million Nipigon River Bridge has been open for less than two months, and it failed in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[864,1479],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-nipigon-river-bridge-statement","tag-wayne-gates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 01:09:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}