{"id":14176,"date":"2016-12-06T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=14176"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:57:46","slug":"councillor-calls-for-new-park-and-ride-in-cardiff-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/councillor-calls-for-new-park-and-ride-in-cardiff-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor calls for new park and ride in Cardiff North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An independent Councillor in Heath says\u00a0Cardiff North needs a park and ride to help ease congestion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Councillor Fenella Bowden (pictured) says travel time into the city from Cardiff North has almost doubled recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s miserable, it&#8217;s constant, it&#8217;s difficult for residents to access their own properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She says a new park and ride\u00a0would help solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t get stuck in traffic, you wouldn&#8217;t be scrambling around looking for a parking space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardiff City Council says it wants to reduce traffic on roads coming into the city by encouraging more people to use public transport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nearest alternative is the Cardiff East Park and Ride in Pentwyn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Councillor Bowden says the city\u00a0council&#8217;s Local Development Plan doesn&#8217;t lay out a parking strategy for Cardiff North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The price we&#8217;re paying is what we&#8217;re seeing on the streets now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardiff City Council have not yet responded to\u00a0a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent Councillor in Heath says\u00a0Cardiff North needs a park and ride to help ease congestion. Councillor Fenella Bowden (pictured) says travel time into the city from Cardiff North has almost doubled recently. &#8220;It&#8217;s miserable, it&#8217;s constant, it&#8217;s difficult for residents to access their own properties.&#8221; She says a new park and ride\u00a0would help solve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[150,893,894,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14176"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14176\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}