{"id":23476,"date":"2018-08-17T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:49:40","slug":"new-safety-campaign-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23476","title":{"rendered":"New safety campaign in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one Edinburgh tram equals the weight of nine African Elephants? No, well you do now! As part of a new safety campaign in the Scottish capital pedestrians are being encouraged to \u201cLook out for the tram-pede\u201d with posters being added to tram stops.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The campaign is looking to make people aware of trams running through the streets of Edinburgh and just reminding people that a single tram is very heavy and if it hits you is likely to be quite painful. Edinburgh is just the latest UK tramway to start a campaign like this with more and more people seemingly oblivious to their surroundings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23477\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=23477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23477\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23477\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23477\" title=\"elephant-rc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/elephant-rc-355x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/elephant-rc-355x550.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/elephant-rc-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/elephant-rc.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photograph by Roy Calderwood, 16th August 2018)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that one Edinburgh tram equals the weight of nine African Elephants? No, well you do now! As part of a new safety campaign in the Scottish capital pedestrians are being encouraged to \u201cLook out for the tram-pede\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=23476\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476"}],"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=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23499,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions\/23499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}