Niagara Falls mayor says city preparing for up to 1 million visitors for solar eclipse

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The mayor of Niagara Falls says the city expects to attract the biggest crowd in its history on April 8 when upwards of a million visitors show up to watch the full solar eclipse.

Niagara Falls mayor says city preparing for up to 1 million visitors for solar eclipse

“It’s going to be crazy… We are trying to prepare for the biggest event in the history of the city by far.” “That day the weather, of course, will have a big impact on how many people arrive because we are within a days’ drive of half the population of North America. A lot of people can come here in a short period of time.”“When you’ve got hundreds of thousands of people trying to send pictures and texts at the same time, you can crash the system,” he noted. “We are preparing for everything so we hope to be fully ready.

“It is frustrating for someone coming here that you understand that you would have paid a lot less for the week before or the week after but that’s just kind of the supply and demand model.”“I’m not saying that it is right. That is just the way it is,” he added.“Take the GO train down,” he said, adding that Metrolinx has promised to add more trains on the day of the eclipse. “But buy your tickets in advance.

 

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