{"id":20476,"date":"2018-03-14T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:28:33","slug":"council-apologises-over-roadworks-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/council-apologises-over-roadworks-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Council apologises over roadworks &#8216;oversight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff Council has apologised to residents after failing to consult them over roadworks being carried out near their homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A traffic island has been removed from Thornhill Road to make way for a zebra crossing.<\/p>\n<p>But residents have complained it has left them unable them cross the busy road safely.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Cardiff Council said failure to notify people was an &#8220;oversight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Resident Paula Hansen said: &#8220;As it stands there is no safe place to cross and disabled people cannot cross at all. Just not thought through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbour Nick Clissold added: &#8220;I&#8217;m aware they are placing a crossing, which is positive. But this needs to happen in quick order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Conservative councillor for Rhiwbina Jayne Cowan, the council said: &#8220;Unfortunately, due to an oversight, the local ward members and the residents living in close proximity were not notified of the works commencing on site, for which I apologise for any inconvenience caused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A council spokesman said the project would see the speed limit cut from 40 to 30mph and it would create a &#8220;safer environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Council has apologised to residents after failing to consult them over roadworks being carried out near their homes. A traffic island has been removed from Thornhill Road to make way for a zebra crossing. But residents have complained it has left them unable them cross the busy road safely. A spokesman for Cardiff Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476"}],"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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20476"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20590,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions\/20590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}