{"id":1949,"date":"2013-11-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbeylandsresidents.org.uk\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2014-07-16T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:39:08","slug":"in-praise-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/in-praise-of-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PLAN<\/a>Not everything that the transport department cooks up is bad. Indeed some of it is truly good. Last time I spoke to Peter Forsyth about the station car park at an East Lothian Bus Forum he said that picking up the phone to Network Rail had been nothing short of\u00a0a revelation.<\/p>\n

He further\u00a0revealed that there were far fewer impediments to creating the car park at Foggo’s Yard than previously put about by our local\u00a0politician’s. Sometime later ELC’s\u00a0proposals surfaced. I strongly approve.<\/p>\n

Click the image<\/a>\u00a0below to get the\u00a0super slippy experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not everything that the transport department cooks up is bad. Indeed some of it is truly good. Last time I spoke to Peter Forsyth about the station car park at an East Lothian Bus Forum he said that picking up the phone to Network Rail had been nothing short of\u00a0a revelation. He further\u00a0revealed that there … Continue reading In praise of transportation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1691,"url":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/why-i-object-to-new-car-parking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1949,"position":0},"title":"Why I object to new car parking","author":"templar","date":"March 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the substance of my objection to the proposals at Abbeylands. This is yet another insensitive development inside the Dunbar Conservation Area. 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