{"id":21,"date":"2009-03-13T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:06:46","slug":"welcome-to-vivanext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/welcome-to-vivanext\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to vivaNext"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the vivaBlog. I\u2019m Dale Albers, Chief Communications Officer with York Region Rapid Transit Corporation<\/a>. I could tell you we started this blog because my kids thought it would be cool, but that wouldn\u2019t be accurate. Truth is, there are a lot of changes coming to Viva and not everyone has the time to come to public meetings to talk about it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, turnout at our public meetings<\/a> has been amazing with hundreds of people in attendance. Even our webcasts attracted over 7,000 unique visitors. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But people don\u2019t just write letters or e-mails anymore. They\u2019re creating wikis, tweeting transit slowdowns, blogging about the Yonge Street Subway expansion and creating facebook groups to discuss how we can make vivaNext a better plan. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But here is the question. If you\u2019re online talking about vivaNext, shouldn\u2019t we be there to listen and participate in the discussion? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I hope this blog will do.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll post two or three times a week and look forward to following the discussion and interjecting when I can. If you see a post or an article you\u2019d like us to respond to, post it and we\u2019ll chat. I\u2019ll do my best to answer your questions as the vivaNext plan takes shape throughout York Region<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell your friends to get onboard and tell me what\u2019s on your mind. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the vivaBlog. I\u2019m Dale Albers, Chief Communications Officer with York Region Rapid Transit Corporation. I could tell you we started this blog because my kids thought it would be cool, but that wouldn\u2019t be accurate. Truth is, there are a lot of changes coming to Viva and not everyone has the time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,42],"tags":[14,10,13,11,12,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-general","category-vivanextcom","tag-rapid-transit","tag-subway-extension","tag-toronto","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-twitter","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}