{"id":144780,"date":"2025-09-18T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:19:08","slug":"cyclists-told-not-to-ride-in-witney-area-after-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144780\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists told not to ride in Witney area after &#8216;accidents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The message comes after Witney Town Council cleaned the cycle prohibition signs at St Mary\u2019s Churchyard to make it clear cycling is not allowed in this area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the council said: &#8220;Cyclists should either dismount and walk their bikes through the churchyard or use an alternative route.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>A no cycling sign at St Mary\u2019s Churchyard in Witney before and after the council cleaned it(Image: Witney Town Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although the area is not directly under the town council\u2019s responsibility, it took action following reports from residents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spokesman said: &#8220;We\u2019ve received feedback from residents about accidents and near misses, so we\u2019ve stepped in to help improve safety and awareness.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council said it has forwarded these concerns to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oxfordshire County Council<\/a> and the neighbourhood policing team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The message comes after Witney Town Council cleaned the cycle prohibition signs at St Mary\u2019s Churchyard to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-144780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}