{"id":56792,"date":"2025-01-09T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56792"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:16:48","slug":"in-pictures-car-causes-delays-for-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56792","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Car causes delays for West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro services along Bilston Road in Wolverhampton were hit by delays on Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> December after a badly parked car blocked the tracks adjacent to the retail park. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of both tramway staff and the Police it was not possible to move the car out the way and so a recovery vehicle was called to move the errant vehicle from blocking the tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56793\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1.car-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56793\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1.car-aw-550x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One badly parked car equals no trams getting by on the Bilston Road. The Police may be in attendance but they also can\u2019t shift it so things come to a halt.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56794\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2.car-aw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56794\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2.car-aw-550x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvation comes as the car is picked up by a recovery truck. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 29th December 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Metro services along Bilston Road in Wolverhampton were hit by delays on Sunday 29th December after a badly parked car blocked the tracks adjacent to the retail park. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of both tramway staff and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56792\">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\/56792"}],"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=56792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56795,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56792\/revisions\/56795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}