{"id":321965,"date":"2025-12-02T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:10:07","slug":"vandals-block-wellington-mountain-bike-cycle-trails-with-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321965\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals block Wellington mountain bike cycle trails with obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wellington City Council park rangers are installing motion-activated cameras in the Town Belt on Matairangi\/Mt Victoria after a spate of vandalism that appears to target mountain bikers. Photo \/ Wellington City Council<\/p>\n

Wellington City Council is installing motion-activated cameras in the Town Belt on Mt Victoria after a spate of vandalism which it says appeared to have targeted mountain bikers.<\/p>\n

\n Over the past few days, the council said logs, stumps and other obstacles had been placed
\n on several mountain bike trails in places where, if hit by a mountain bike rider, they could cause serious injury.\n <\/p>\n

The council\u2019s parks manager Bradley Schroder said timber had also been fastened to trees at a height with the apparent intention of injuring riders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said fencing and signage had also been removed, mainly around the V, Rockdrop and Shuttlecock tracks, and cautioned riders that other trails may have been vandalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 1 Dec, 2025 11:29 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,3171,43405,49823,784,35068,181263,85,98977,154216,25904,3605],"class_list":["post-321965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bike","tag-block","tag-cycle","tag-cycling","tag-mountain","tag-obstacles","tag-sports","tag-trails","tag-vandals","tag-wellington","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321965","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=321965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}