{"id":12,"date":"2011-03-21T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2011-03-25T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T08:25:33","slug":"other-impacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Other Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the long term aims of the project has always been to promote a safe, convenient and coherent network of sustainable transport routes.\u00a0 This will have a beneficial impact on the local environment, not only by reducing car traffic, but also by improving the town\u2019s facilities and appearance.\u00a0 Cycling and walking are low cost, healthy forms of travel and as such will have major health and economic benefits.\u00a0 These include:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The creation of a more cohesive and sociable community (people out walking and cycling will often stop and chat)<\/li>\n<li>Public spaces being used more often by more people will reduce the incidences of anti-social behaviour in these areas<\/li>\n<li>Making the High Street more accessible to all will increase trade in local shops and reduce the need to make longer shopping trips by car<\/li>\n<li>The provision of a network of routes will open up and connect more areas of the town, encouraging improved integration of existing and new areas of development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the long term aims of the project has always been to promote a safe, convenient and coherent network of sustainable transport routes.\u00a0 This will have a beneficial impact on the local environment, not only by reducing car traffic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/?page_id=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/connectingdunbar2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}