{"id":14349,"date":"2016-04-11T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2016-04-11T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:38:01","slug":"this-is-the-continuing-saga-of-metrolink-vs-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14349","title":{"rendered":"This is the continuing saga of Metrolink vs car"},"content":{"rendered":"

It really is getting boring now but the continuing saga of the motorists of Greater Manchester against Metrolink has continued during April with two further collisions \u2013 one in Wythenshawe and the other in Rochdale \u2013 to report but also hope that incidents at Holt Town may be reduced following the installation of more signage.<\/p>\n

Starting off with the collisions and the more serious of which took place at Martinscroft on the Airport line during the evening of Friday 1st April. In this incident 3099<\/strong> collided with a car causing significant damage to both vehicles but fortunately there were no serious injuries reported. The driver of the car was taken to hospital with minor injuries whilst the other occupants of the vehicle were uninjured. Greater Manchester Police tweeted that the driver had been reported for numerous offences.<\/p>\n

Then on Monday 11th April a further collision took place in Rochdale Town Centre with 3090<\/strong> and a lorry involved. The exact circumstances of what caused the incident are currently unknown with Transport for Greater Manchester declining to comment to the local press as they said it was being dealt with by the Police. Both tram and lorry suffered damage in the collision but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the old Metrolink favourite of \u201ccar making a wrong turning onto tramway\u201d will hopefully be a rarer occurrence at regular location Holt Town with more \u201cno entry\u201d signage having been added recently. This signage \u2013 which is more than is required according to regulations \u2013 should make it pretty clear to motorists they don\u2019t want to actually drive that way and who knows may mean we no longer have to report on this type of story again.<\/p>\n

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The new non-entry signs at Holt Town. But will it have the desired effect? (Both Photograpghs by Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n

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It really is getting boring now but the continuing saga of the motorists of Greater Manchester against Metrolink has continued during April with two further collisions \u2013 one in Wythenshawe and the other in Rochdale \u2013 to report but also … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14353,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions\/14353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}