{"id":1979,"date":"2012-10-07T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2012-10-07T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:36:24","slug":"oldham-metrolink-line-hailed-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Oldham Metrolink line hailed a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures recently released have shown that the Metrolink extension through to Oldham Mumps has been a success with over 250,000 journeys made in the first three months. The line was finally opened on 13<sup>th<\/sup> June and sees a tram every 12 minutes from St Werburgh\u2019s Road via the City Centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cllr Andrew Fender, chairman of TfGM Committee, said: \u201cThe line to Oldham Mumps is a fantastic addition. It\u2019s great to see how many people are already using it and we look forward to welcoming even more people on board in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that over 10,000 tickets each week are sold for trams through to Oldham Mumps. It is planned that by the end of this year the line will be extended through to Rochdale before further extensions in 2014 when Oldham and Rochdale Town Centre\u2019s join the network which will see the current Oldham Mumps stop closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures recently released have shown that the Metrolink extension through to Oldham Mumps has been a success with over 250,000 journeys made in the first three months. The line was finally opened on 13th June and sees a tram every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/1979"}],"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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}