{"id":25078,"date":"2006-04-18T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/04\/18\/skatepark-needed\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T15:31:00","slug":"skatepark-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25078","title":{"rendered":"Skatepark needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06041801.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Vale of White Horse District council intends to build a new skatepark in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>There is already a BMX track at the Radley end of Abingdon off Audlett Drive, but young people have petitoned for something more suitable, and been heard.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06041802.jpg\" \/><br \/>Problems with the existing BMX track are: it is on the far edge of Abingdon; the track is prone to flooding and is breaking up in places; the half-pipe has been removed .<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06041803.jpg\" \/><br \/>Anyway over to some real skaters comments taken from a petition website.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Come on people we need a skatepark. please sign the petition<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">their ent nutin good roung abingdon we need somethin to liven the place up!<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we definatley need a skate park, keeps us off streets! Matt rules, he needs somewhere to show off his talent! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Get oneee!<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">sum ppl dun like to spend all their spare time just hangin around shops n lazing around. a skate park is what everyone needs!<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>Better than getting into a fight each night, count me in, i know it sounds stupid but introduce a cheap membership type thing, otherwise all the rudeboys around abingdon are just going to ruin it for everyone<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">come on council! we need this park so much! and its not just going to be for &#8220;kids&#8221;, its going to be for everyone (im 19), so its got to be a good park,. not one of these &#8220;bought out of a catalogue crap parks that are a waste of money and dont get used&#8221;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A skatepark is needed. Preferably a brilliant one with miniramp, decent funboxes and some kind of speed ramp and a halfpipe like the newest one at iffley!!!<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>heya they shud blaitently make a skate park but no one shud tell n e chavs where it is!!!!!<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>Need some decent flat bank rail combinations<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Is this Abingdon Viriginia USA? I live there!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vale of White Horse District council intends to build a new skatepark in Abingdon. There is already a BMX track at the Radley end of Abingdon off Audlett Drive, but young people have petitoned for something more suitable, and been heard.Problems with the existing BMX track are: it is on the far edge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078","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=25078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}