{"id":13037,"date":"2014-12-17T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13037"},"modified":"2014-12-17T00:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:08:43","slug":"marcham-road-crossings-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13037","title":{"rendered":"Marcham Road Crossings Decision by Oxfordshire County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Neil Fawcett tweeted today<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Sadly the County Council Cabinet voted unanimously to allow the moving of the Marcham Road crossing #Abingdon&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Initially Oxfordshire County Council rejected the crossings, then at a second hearing reversed that decision and allowed the moving of the crossings. That decision was \u00a0referred back to the Cabinet for this final decision.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14121602.jpg\" alt=\"Marcham Road Crossings\" \/><br \/>\nThe lights will consequently move \u00a0from where they can be seen currently to where the nearest car is speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Moving the pedestrian lights was proposed by the developers as a traffic mitigation measure so that traffic congestion after the development of 159 dwellings on Drayton Road is no worse than before. The area already suffers traffic congestion, and has done for decades, and local people want real road improvements before any further development.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of The Vale of White Horse District Council is still looking to get legal advice about whether\u00a0any further avenues are still open to oppose the crossings,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Neil Fawcett tweeted today &#8220;Sadly the County Council Cabinet voted unanimously to allow the moving of the Marcham Road crossing #Abingdon&#8221; Initially Oxfordshire County Council rejected the crossings, then at a second hearing reversed that decision and allowed the moving of the crossings. That decision was \u00a0referred back to the Cabinet for this final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","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=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}