Funding for the project has come from the government’s Future High Streets Fund, which is supporting work to transform the Maid Marian Way area of the city.<\/p>\n
A roundabout was turned into a T-junction <\/a>as part of the Maid Marian Way project in October 2024.<\/p>\n It initially led to complaints<\/a> from bus company Trentbarton, which said it was causing “significant delays” before the phasing of the traffic lights was changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n The city council said the artwork was the final phase of the project.<\/p>\n Councillor Linda Woodings, executive member for regional development, growth and transport, said: “Maid Marian Way was previously a run-down, unattractive area of the city – this project has regenerated this area.<\/p>\n “Alicja’s design for the statue reflects the city’s commitment to go green and become carbon neutral, and it feels great to see the legend of Maid Marian represented in this way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Funding for the project has come from the government’s Future High Streets Fund, which is supporting work to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-399512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}