{"id":94144,"date":"2018-07-20T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1a7c5e315ac99667e7683f42219147c4"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:44:25","slug":"press-release-sellafield-travel-scheme-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94144","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Sellafield travel scheme success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A new travel programme at Sellafield has resulted in 500 fewer cars using site car parks.<\/p>\n<p>Sellafield Ltd introduced a raft of new travel to work options in February this year.<\/p>\n<p>These included park and ride bus services and direct commuter coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates have indicated that since then traffic accessing the site has reduced by 500 vehicles a day.<br \/>\nBuilding on that success, the company is launching the next phase of its travel improvements on Monday, 23 July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a requirement for vehicles entering the site to have 3 or more occupants<\/li>\n<li>minimum occupancy of 2 people or more for vehicles using the off-site Yottenfews car park<\/li>\n<li>a new car sharing database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The measures supplement existing park and ride schemes in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Workington,<\/li>\n<li>Cockermouth<\/li>\n<li>Whitehaven<\/li>\n<li>Egremont<\/li>\n<li>Gosforth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This also includes direct coaches from north and south of the Sellafield site.<\/p>\n<p>A shuttle service between satellite offices and the main site runs every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bostock, Sellafield Ltd site director said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I want to thank everyone who has embraced these changes.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are necessary for us to deliver our mission of making Sellafield safer, sooner.<\/p>\n<p>To clear space for future decommissioning projects, we needed to remove 1,300 parking spots on the site.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re doing it in phases to give people time to adjust and to ensure we balance the needs of the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted at the success so far.  We\u2019re already seeing genuine benefits for people who work on the site and the local community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recorded benefits so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>500 fewer cars using on-site car parks<\/li>\n<li>300 fewer cars a day using the off-site Yottenfews car park, compared with June 2017<\/li>\n<li>9,500 journeys on the direct commuter coaches in June 2018 alone<\/li>\n<li>120 people a day using the Gosforth park and ride and commuter routes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information contact Ruth Hutchison: +44 (0)19467 86227, <a href=\"mailto:ruth.hutchison@sellafieldsites.com\">ruth.hutchison@sellafieldsites.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New changes unveiled after improvements reduce traffic.<\/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\/94144"}],"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=94144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}