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Move to replace directional signs
to Niagara Falls
28 March, 2007
Tourists heading for Niagara Falls,
other local attractions and Niagara
city’s parking lots would be directed
by new signs if the proposals by a
volunteer committee materialise.
The Niagara Falls Tourism Advisory
Board is currently considering two
plans to put up new signs throughout
Niagara city in an attempt to direct
tourists toward the Niagara Falls and
its surroundings by the summer of
2007.
The city of Niagara has invited bids
to replace two signs on Pine Avenue at
the corners of Main and Third streets.
The signs currently direct drivers to
the Niagara Falls down Main Street,
but the Niagara Falls Tourism Advisory
Board wants tourists to be directed
down Third Street near the Aquarium of
Niagara and other local businesses.
The Niagara City Council had a month
earlier approved a tourism budget that
set aside $5,000 of Niagara city’s
hotel occupancy taxes to pay for new
signs.
The Niagara Falls Tourism Advisory
Board is also exploring ways to put up
seven new directional signs that would
depict the falls and direct the
tourists from Niagara Falls Boulevard
to downtown Niagara Falls municipal
parking lots. The signs would also
guide tourists to the Pine Avenue
‘Little Italy’ neighborhood and other
areas.
The members of the Niagara Falls
Tourism Advisory Board believe that
putting up new signs would enhance
traffic to the city’s parking lots.
The Niagara Falls Tourism Advisory
Board is also working independently on
a project headed by the state agency
USA Niagara Development Corporation to
make what it calls a ‘comprehensive
wayfinding system’ that will direct
tourists to attractions within the
downtown areas of the Niagara city.
The USA Niagara project aims at
reducing and refining the number of
signs directing drivers in tourist
areas of Niagara city.
The USA Niagara Development
Corporation project, which is
scheduled to be completed in 2007, is
part of a $3.4-million project to
replace signs in the downtown area and
rebuild Old Falls Street.
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