{"id":21096,"date":"2018-11-21T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21096"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:34:28","slug":"pavements-in-grangetown-are-putting-children-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/pavements-in-grangetown-are-putting-children-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavements in Grangetown are putting “children at risk”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grangtown residents say narrow pavements are a danger to children\u00a0during the school run.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0junction between Penarth Road and Clare Road\u00a0is in\u00a0the centre of the ward, and is\u00a0used daily by\u00a0hundreds on foot and by car. Many\u00a0believe\u00a0Cardiff\u00a0council has prioritised cars by widening the roads,\u00a0leaving pedestrians at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0council says the roads have not been widened, they\u00a0just look wider after central islands were removed couple of years ago. But locals have still expressed concerns about certain areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

The narrowest point\u00a0of the pavement\u00a0is at the pedestrian crossing, where many children wait to cross for school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick Leney, a\u00a045 year old father of two, says he worries about his children’s safety on a daily basis, “The pavements aren’t really wide enough for the people waiting at the crossing. I’m anxious when I cross with my children. It does make you think, I’d be better off in the car, because at least then they’d be safe.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Leney fears\u00a0that the overcrowded\u00a0crossing is forcing vulnerable people\u00a0onto the road, and into oncoming traffic.\u00a0He says these\u00a0safety fears are\u00a0causing\u00a0many parents to take the un-eco option of the car, which is adding to city’s air pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Locals have contacted\u00a0the council about their concerns, but feel they are being ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, Cardiff council said: “Compared to other locations in the city, this junction did not rank high enough on the future programme of road safety schemes to justify being included in a bid for specific funds. Any further work that is deemed necessary will be addressed if other funding opportunities arise.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grangtown residents say narrow pavements are a danger to children\u00a0during the school run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744,1],"tags":[829,428,988,453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21096"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21592,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21096\/revisions\/21592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}