{"id":4897,"date":"2013-08-22T20:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2013-08-22T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T19:50:19","slug":"metrolink-park-and-ride-facilities-to-be-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink Park and Ride facilities to be increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car parks at Radcliffe and Whitefield Metrolink stops are to be enlarged following the approval of planning applications by Bury Council. Both car parks will have an extra deck added with work expected to start in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cllr Andrew Fender, Chair of the TfGM Committee, said: \u201cThe parking facilities at Radcliffe and Whitefield are starting to reach their maximum capacity. That\u2019s why Metrolink is expanding the car parks at both sites, which are provided free of charge to passengers, so I\u2019m delighted that we\u2019ve secured planning permission and can now press on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of parking spaces at Radcliffe will increase from 250 to 364 and the number of spaces at Whitefield from 127 to 210, representing an increase of 52%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car parks at Radcliffe and Whitefield Metrolink stops are to be enlarged following the approval of planning applications by Bury Council. Both car parks will have an extra deck added with work expected to start in 2014.<\/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\/4897"}],"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=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}