{"id":615,"date":"2014-05-21T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:19:45","slug":"cosford-air-show-traffic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/cosford-air-show-traffic-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosford Air Show Traffic News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\"><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Air Show spokesman Amanda Butcher said &#8220;Last year&#8217;s record crowds saw considerable congestion and long tail backs in the surrounding area so we have worked hard with all the local agencies to come up with a number of changes which we expect to bring a much improved traffic flow and improvements to the car parking arrangements&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Major changes include the use of accredited personnel to direct traffic at the key junctions. This will enable organisers, in conjunction with the Highways Agency and the Police, to give priority to the busiest routes rather than relying on traffic lights and existing road priorities. The gate to the show from the A464 will also be open to the public longer which will reduce the pressure on the M54.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">In addition, a professional car parking company, who are experienced with major events, will be working with RAF Cosford personnel to improve the car parking entry and exit systems and ensure that traffic flows within the car parks are managed and controlled.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Amanda Butcher went on to say &#8220;We will be able to get people on and off the site more quickly and also be able to respond to any build up of traffic on the local roads by changing the flow priority. As a result we are confident that we will see a significant improvement this year.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">With only a couple of weeks until the event, ticket sales are still at record levels and the organisers have again recommended the purchase of advance tickets, these are priced at \u00a320 for adults with children under 16 coming free. Tickets are available through many Midcounties Co-operative stores as well as online and from the RAF Museum.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; background: white;\"><span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">With only a couple of weeks until the event, ticket sales are still at record levels and the organisers have again recommended the purchase of advance tickets, these are priced at \u00a320 for adults with children under 16 coming free. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Tickets are available through many Midcounties Co-operative stores as well as online and from the RAF Museum.<\/span><span><span><font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Miriam; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosfordairshow.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.cosfordairshow.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Show spokesman Amanda Butcher said &#8220;Last year&#8217;s record crowds saw considerable congestion and long tail backs in the surrounding area so we have worked hard with all the local agencies to come up with a number of changes which we expect to bring a much improved traffic flow and improvements to the car parking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/cosford-air-show-traffic-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cosford Air Show Traffic News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[170,45,10,202],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-170","tag-may","tag-news","tag-raf-cosford-air-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}