{"id":72075,"date":"2016-07-07T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4540acbef16d669d2ca45d02470f2d07"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:36:10","slug":"news-story-free-electric-vehicle-parking-space-for-thousands-in-milton-keynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72075","title":{"rendered":"News story: Free electric vehicle parking space for thousands in Milton Keynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Andrew Jones was in Milton Keynes today (7 July 2016) to see how \u00a39 million of government funding for electric cars is delivering a major boost to the city\u2019s economy and is paving the way for thousands of free electric car parking spaces. Electric vehicle drivers in Milton Keynes can now park for free in 15,000 commuter and charging spaces with a new \u2018green parking permit\u2019. The scheme is the first in a series of nationwide initiatives designed to increase the uptake of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/40-million-to-drive-green-car-revolution-across-uk-cities\">Milton Keynes was awarded Go Ultra Low City<\/a> status alongside Bristol, London and Nottingham, securing multi-million pound investment from government. Dundee, Newcastle, York and Oxford have also received funding for specific <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goultralow.com\/\">Go Ultra Low projects<\/a>. The cities and regions each received a share of \u00a340 million funding by proposing exciting and innovative ideas that will encourage drivers to choose an electric car.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Andrew Jones said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is great to see the first part of Milton Keynes\u2019 Go Ultra Low City plan become a reality. Thanks to the \u00a39 million of funding we have provided, thousands of local residents will now be able to park their electric cars for free. This grant will also help to create an \u2018electric vehicle experience centre\u2019 in the city and open up bus lanes to electric car drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are investing \u00a3600 million in cleaner, greener vehicles by 2020 to improve air quality, create jobs and achieve our goal of every car and van in the <abbr title=\"United Kingom\">UK<\/abbr> being zero emission by 2050.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The council received \u00a39 million funding to further its innovative work developing modern vehicles to tackle harmful emissions and reduce its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1018\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Roads media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3108\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Minister visits Milton Keynes to launch 15,000 free parking spaces for electric vehicles as part of the town&#8217;s Go Ultra Low City scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}