{"id":732257,"date":"2026-01-31T04:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/732257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T04:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T04:20:19","slug":"cressington-station-closure-petition-signed-by-more-than-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/732257\/","title":{"rendered":"Cressington station closure petition signed by more than 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I presented the petition which has got 556 signatories, so it is a large number of people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The chairman [Councillor Steve Foulkes] said clearly any disruption is regretted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He did say there had been concern that it was Merseyrail trying to close the station in future &#8211; which he made clear there are no plans to close the station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But he couldn&#8217;t confirm there wouldn&#8217;t be any more disruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greg Suligowski from Merseyrail said station closures were sometimes made to help customers travel safely and easily across the network. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can involve changes to train times at Cressington station or, when very large passenger numbers are expected, replacement buses operating instead of trains,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We work closely with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and other partners as part of wider event transport planning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also ensure these changes are clearly communicated in advance through station posters, social media updates, and announcements across our network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I presented the petition which has got 556 signatories, so it is a large number of people. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-732257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115987797022816034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732257","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=732257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}