{"id":49394,"date":"2023-05-09T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49394"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:45:35","slug":"resurfacing-work-in-wolverhampton-as-extension-edges-closer-to-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49394","title":{"rendered":"Resurfacing work in Wolverhampton as extension edges closer to opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been confirmed that there will be resurfacing works in Wolverhampton City Centre from late May as work to open the West Midlands Metro extension to the Railway Station continues. Last month saw the first tram on the extension and further tests will take place before a planned for opening at some point in the spring.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The resurfacing works are due to take place on Pipers Row. Signs warning motorists of this work had said it would be between 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> May but the Express and Star report that it is now likely to take place at the end of the month (we know, very unlike this extension to be delayed with anything!).<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman from the Midland Metro Alliance said: \u201cWe will be carrying out a short period of resurfacing works in Pipers Row following the completion of earlier drainage works. Signs were put in place to give advance notice of the activity taking place as per legal requirements; activity is now scheduled to begin from late May and updated signage\/information will be shared in due course. The scheme is expected to open in the spring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its also noted that work on the Wolverhampton Railway Station tramstop is now completed.<\/p>\n<p>We wait news on an opening date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been confirmed that there will be resurfacing works in Wolverhampton City Centre from late May as work to open the West Midlands Metro extension to the Railway Station continues. Last month saw the first tram on the extension and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49394\">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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49394"}],"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=49394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49395,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49394\/revisions\/49395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}