{"id":185420,"date":"2025-03-12T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=28bbaacba803fd56e280a9d563f01b98"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:29:50","slug":"proposed-midlands-rail-link-to-save-over-13-million-minutes-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=185420","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Midlands rail link to save over 13 million minutes a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gathering today at Leicester station \/\/ Credit: Midlands Connect\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MC-Leicester-10th-March-18_cropped-1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Today (Tuesday 11 March), Leicester&#8217;s City Mayor Peter Soulsby, Midlands Connect and business leaders pledged their support for the proposed rail link between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (Tuesday 11 March), Leicester&#8217;s City Mayor Peter Soulsby, Midlands Connect and business leaders pledged their support for the proposed rail link between Coventry, Leicester and Nottingham. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15813,15814,2521,15815,2556,3408,2619,6035,2370,5457,2309,2621,47,1684],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-185420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bedworth","category-bermuda-park","category-coventry","category-coventry-arena","category-east-midlands-railway","category-hinckley","category-leicester","category-loughborough","category-midlands","category-midlands-connect","category-network","category-nottingham","category-rail-news","category-southampton","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185421,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185420\/revisions\/185421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}