{"id":22954,"date":"2019-02-19T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22954"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:51:21","slug":"resident-threatens-campaign-for-resident-only-parking-in-roath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/resident-threatens-campaign-for-resident-only-parking-in-roath\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident threatens campaign for resident-only parking in Roath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People living in Roath say Cardiff Council are doing \u201cnothing\u201d to tackle parking issues on Wordsworth Avenue.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Beryl O\u2019Brien has lived on the street for 38 years and says the situation &#8220;is getting worse\u201d. She now wants to take matters into her own hands and launch a campaign for an increase in residents-only parking for streets around Wordsworth Avenue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22978\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22978\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22978 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-217x122.jpg 217w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ms-OBrien.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beryl O&#8217;Brien has lived on Wordsworth Avenue in Cardiff for nearly 40 years<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ms O\u2019Brien says traffic jams near her house are caused by a combination of factors, including taxis using the lane as a place to make U-turns and a decision by the Council to move a bus stop on the road. She says it\u2019s now \u201cdangerous for the residents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She also blames parents of children at the nearby St Peter&#8217;s Primary School for causing \u201cabsolute chaos\u201d in the mornings, and says she\u2019s had to call the police on more than one occasion because of gridlocked traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year another resident on the avenue, Michael Vernon, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/cardiff-street-full-cars-council-15288136\">Wales Online<\/a> that recycling bags hadn\u2019t been collected for the \u201clast three to four weeks\u201d due to congestion on the street.<\/p>\n<p>The latest campaign is due to be launched later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Local councillors for Roath have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in Roath say Cardiff Council are doing \u201cnothing\u201d to tackle parking issues on Wordsworth Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,1458],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954"}],"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\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22954"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23004,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions\/23004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}