{"id":142249,"date":"2025-09-16T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142249\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:45:09","slug":"york-recycling-centre-traffic-congestion-to-be-tackled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142249\/","title":{"rendered":"York recycling centre traffic congestion to be tackled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2009, traffic flow on nearby James Street had increased by about 100 vehicles per hour at its peak, a report to be examined by councillors stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hazel Court site could accommodate current total demand, but peak-time queues were causing wider problems on the city&#8217;s roads, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A trial booking method using the same system operated during the Covid pandemic could be used at the centre, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This would &#8220;average out&#8221; the number of visits without restricting the total amount as Hazel Court could meet the demand of materials being taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Options for the future provision of household waste recycling centre services in York were also being explored, the report explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This would &#8220;likely be the identification of a site that would better serve York&#8217;s growing population&#8221;, it concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the place scrutiny committee are due to meet later this month to discuss the proposals, and a further report was expected to be taken to the council&#8217;s executive for approval in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2009, traffic flow on nearby James Street had increased by about 100 vehicles per hour at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-142249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}