{"id":199677,"date":"2025-10-09T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:10:08","slug":"battle-goes-on-over-reopening-of-closed-dryden-road-in-exeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199677\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle goes on over reopening of closed Dryden Road in Exeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A highly controversial road closure will be discussed later with the possibility of a public consultation on whether the road should reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Dryden Road in Exeter was closed to motorists in June 2020, at first temporarily and then permanently in 2022, to try to reduce traffic and create a safer cycling route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Campaigners against the road closure said the move increased congestion and pollution for people living nearby but cyclist groups want the road to remain closed to cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Devon County Council officers recommended a two-month public consultation early in 2026 on whether the road should be reopened to drivers or if other changes should be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A highly controversial road closure will be discussed later with the possibility of a public consultation on whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-199677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}