{"id":26391,"date":"2019-03-06T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26391"},"modified":"2019-03-06T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:14:51","slug":"in-pictures-more-road-reopenings-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26391","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: More road reopenings in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of the construction work \u2013 or that which can be done anyway \u2013 has now been completed along Talbot Road in Blackpool allowing the end of the road closest to Wilkinson\u2019s to be reopened to two way traffic for first time in serval months. Line painting has been taking place and the road surface \u2013 albeit now with tram tracks installed \u2013 probably hasn\u2019t looked this good for quite some time. It\u2019s just a shame that it won\u2019t be until 2020 at the earliest that trams actually get to use the extension.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26392\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26392\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26392\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26392\" title=\"1.talbot-pd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1.talbot-pd1-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1.talbot-pd1-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1.talbot-pd1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1.talbot-pd1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bus approaching along the tram tracks! The top end of Talbot Road by Wilkinson\u2019s. The tracks can be seen here curving towards the entrance of the store where they then stop waiting for the demolition of the building and construction of a new terminus.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26393\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26393\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26393\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26393\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26393\" title=\"2.talbot-pd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2.talbot-pd1-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2.talbot-pd1-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2.talbot-pd1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2.talbot-pd1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile down at the other end of the line by the Promenade tramway and newly laid concrete is being removed already. Quite why this is being done is unclear. (Both Photographs by Peter Dockerty, 5th March 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of the construction work \u2013 or that which can be done anyway \u2013 has now been completed along Talbot Road in Blackpool allowing the end of the road closest to Wilkinson\u2019s to be reopened to two way traffic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26391\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26391"}],"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=26391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26401,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26391\/revisions\/26401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}