{"id":73484,"date":"2016-08-24T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=804f886ec490dd2fd2a6c111871782ee"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:33:51","slug":"press-release-improved-road-surface-for-drivers-on-the-a19-in-thirsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73484","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Improved road surface for drivers on the A19 in Thirsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Contractors for Highways England are resurfacing just over 3 miles of the A19 between Over Silton and Osmotherley.<\/p>\n<p>The work, which is expected to be completed by Monday 5 September, will be carried out overnight between 8pm and 6am.<\/p>\n<p>Highways England Project Manager Phil Leng said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This project will provide drivers with safer journeys along this stretch of the northbound A19 in Thirsk.<\/p>\n<p>Every effort is being made to ensure disruption to traffic is kept to a minimum. We are carrying out as much work as we can overnight while traffic levels are at their lowest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We expect our contractors will have to return to the area at a later date but this will be scheduled in around closures on the A1 Leeming to Barton major project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly signed diversions will be in place via the A19\/A61 South Kilvington northbound exit skip road, the A168 to Northallerton, the A684 and back on at Osmotherley junction \u2013 northbound entry slip road.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"general-enquiries\">General enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Members of the public should contact the Highways England customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Journalists should contact the Highways England press office on 0844 693 1448 and use the menu to speak to the most appropriate press officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work to resurface the northbound A19 in Thirsk will begin on Tuesday 30 August to provide drivers with smoother and safer journeys.<\/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\/73484"}],"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=73484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}