{"id":3261,"date":"2011-10-13T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:02:06","slug":"new-mountain-bike-parking-near-marquis-drive-cannock-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3261","title":{"rendered":"New Mountain Bike Parking near Marquis Drive, Cannock Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3271\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3271\" title=\"parking problems at marquis drive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/marquisdrive.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">parking problems at marquis drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3266 alignleft\" title=\"Mountain Bike Parking Cannock Chase - Marquis Drive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1-212x300.png 212w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1-723x1024.png 723w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1-106x150.png 106w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1-400x566.png 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/viewer1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>Parking around the\u00a0Marquis Drive Visitors centre\u00a0has become very very busy since the opening of the Forestry Commission Trails ( Follow the Dog and Monkey Trail)\u00a0on Cannock Chase. Marquis Drive is actually a Staffordshire County Council site and local riders often use the car park to access Follow the Dog which runs close by.<\/p>\n<p>The Parking situation became intolerable for the visitors centre this summer with several near accidents and conflict between the various users of the centre, particular as there is a cafe and big adventure playground on site which attracts many families.<\/p>\n<p>The County Council have therefore created a one way system through the centre but have also designated a series of car parks at &#8216;nine gates&#8217; approx 1\/2 a kilometre down the road specifically for bikers. It is hoped that local riders will use this car park instead of Marquis Drive and relieve some of the congestion there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3277\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3277\" title=\"chasephoto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/10\/chasephoto.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">upgraded bikers car park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Council\u00a0has added bike racks and\u00a0the car park is\u00a0close to the bike wash facility at the visitors centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parking around the\u00a0Marquis Drive Visitors centre\u00a0has become very very busy since the opening of the Forestry Commission Trails ( Follow the Dog and Monkey Trail)\u00a0on Cannock Chase. Marquis Drive is actually a Staffordshire County Council site and local riders often use the car park to access Follow the Dog which runs close by. The Parking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Mountain Bike Parking near Marquis Drive, Cannock Chase&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannockchase","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}