{"id":11263,"date":"2014-04-17T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2014-04-17T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T20:00:39","slug":"the-new-traffic-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11263","title":{"rendered":"Health Centre&#8217;s new traffic barrier makes the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Car Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14041712.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe new traffic barrier at the Marcham Road Health Centre has made the news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordtimes.co.uk\/news\/11152880.Abingdon_car_park_barriers____delay_999_cases___\/\">again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Health Centre and Community Hospital next door are run by the NHS, and appear to be thriving from the amount of traffic they attract.  Abingdon residents have campaigned on more than one occasion in the last fifteen years to keep the Community Hospital open, and so its success is good news.<\/p>\n<p>But parking has become a problem and so the Health Centre has introduced a barrier to ensure their patients and staff can find parking when they need it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Car Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14041713.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt leads to a strange sight at weekends when an empty Health Centre Car Park is seen alongside a busy Hospital Car Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new traffic barrier at the Marcham Road Health Centre has made the news again. Both the Health Centre and Community Hospital next door are run by the NHS, and appear to be thriving from the amount of traffic they attract. Abingdon residents have campaigned on more than one occasion in the last fifteen years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}