{"id":877,"date":"2015-07-17T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T09:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=877"},"modified":"2015-07-27T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T09:55:51","slug":"london-bridge-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"London Bridge Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-878\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Inspecting the work in progress at London Bridge Station\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspecting the work in progress at London Bridge Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday 16th July Michael Fallon MP visited London Bridge Station for an update on the current redevelopment and a tour of the site.<\/p>\n<p>The station is being rebuilt as part of the Government-sponsored Thameslink Programme. \u00a0The Programme is expected to be completed by late 2018 and will provide service users with more space, improved connections to more destinations and importantly, reliable services for commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: \u00a0&#8220;The scale of the work taking place at London Bridge is impressive and I am reassured of the benefits commuters will experience once the redevelopment has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Our railways are carrying more passengers than ever before and investment is vital to ensure services operate at their greatest potential for years to come; however I have reminded Network Rail of the need to keep disruption to existing service users at a minimum and I still want to see a discount for season ticket holders who face such a long period of disruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 16th July Michael Fallon MP visited London Bridge Station for an update on the current redevelopment and a tour of the site. The station is being rebuilt as part of the Government-sponsored Thameslink Programme. \u00a0The Programme is expected to be completed by late 2018 and will provide service users with more space, improved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London Bridge Station&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[135,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}