{"id":582034,"date":"2025-11-20T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:00:17","slug":"huge-london-transport-project-gets-green-light-as-rachel-reeves-backs-1-7bn-dlr-extension-to-thamesmead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582034\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge London transport project gets green light as Rachel Reeves backs \u00a31.7bn DLR extension to Thamesmead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The Government is expected to approve the \u00a31.7bn DLR extension to Thamesmead in the Budget<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Construction will start in 2027 and the link will open in 2032, with new stations on either side of the River Thames<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  The project will unlock up to 25,000 homes and 10,000 jobs but may mean the Bakerloo line extension and West London Orbital rail link remain on the back burner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 The Government is expected to approve the \u00a31.7bn DLR extension to Thamesmead in the Budget \u2022 Construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,3878,393,4884,257,619,14252,1264,49682,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-582034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dlr","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-rachel-reeves","14":"tag-sadiq-khan","15":"tag-tfl","16":"tag-thamesmead","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}