{"id":3884,"date":"2011-03-25T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:14:25","slug":"sunday-27th-march-brixton-popes-road-footbridge-is-coming-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/sunday-27th-march-brixton-popes-road-footbridge-is-coming-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 27th March &#8211; Brixton Pope&#8217;s Road footbridge is coming down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday 27th March - Brixton Popes Road footbridge is coming down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last standing reminder of the Pope&#8217;s Road car park is set to disappear, with the removal of the concrete link bridge\u00a0coming down this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-popes-road-car-park-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Pope's Road car park - nearly gone!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>work to remove the now-isolated bridge that connected the car park to the Brixton Rec will involve the closure of nearby roads &#8211; find out more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambeth.gov.uk\/Services\/TransportStreets\/Parking\/WhereToParkParkingCharges\/DemolitionOfBrixtonCarParkInPopesRoad.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lambeth Council&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Expert structural engineers, Lambert Smith Hampton, advised in 2010 that the Pope&#8217;s Road multi-storey car park in Brixton be demolished because it\u00a0was unsafe and beyond repair. This followed a\u00a0number of tests including a panel abseil survey of the structure.\u00a0DDS Demolition commenced\u00a0works in December 2010 and it is anticipated that the car park will be fully demolished by the end of March 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last standing reminder of the Pope&#8217;s Road car park is set to disappear, with the removal of the concrete link bridge\u00a0coming down this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191,342],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-car-park-bridge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-10E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}