{"id":1973,"date":"2016-03-21T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:29:44","slug":"road-safety-improvements-at-littleover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2016\/03\/road-safety-improvements-at-littleover\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Safety Improvements at Littleover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2016\/03\/road-safety-improvements-at-littleover\/ph2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1976\" src=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"PH2\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH2-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH2-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH2-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2016\/03\/road-safety-improvements-at-littleover\/ph1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1977\" src=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"PH1\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH1-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH1-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PH1.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>For many years, Pastures Hill at Littleover has been a dangerous place for cyclists, having a series of bollards along the centre of the road coupled with a 40 mph speed limit. \u00a0The bollards were pinch points where cyclists were put in danger by impatient car drivers overtaking them at the bollards.<\/p>\n<p>To their credit Derby City Council have made a major contribution to Road Safety by removing the bollards, which has given greater road width. The increased road width has allowed the introduction of a 1 m wide cycle lane on the West side of the road and the speed limit is reduced from 40 mph to 30 mph.<\/p>\n<p>We should see more cyclists using this road from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Pastures Hill at Littleover has been a dangerous place for cyclists, having a series of bollards along the centre of the road coupled with a 40 mph speed limit. \u00a0The bollards were pinch points where cyclists were put in danger by impatient car drivers overtaking them at the bollards. To their credit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2016\/03\/road-safety-improvements-at-littleover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road Safety Improvements at Littleover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}