{"id":205310,"date":"2025-10-17T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:07:09","slug":"the-stop-line-way-cycle-path-needs-more-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205310\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stop Line Way cycle path &#8216;needs more volunteers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leaders of The Friends of the Path group say they were inspired by the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly229e27wyo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Strawberry Line<\/a> &#8211; a route which currently runs from Yatton railway station to Wedmore Road in Cheddar &#8211; also maintained by volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Federica Smith-Roberts, Somerset Council&#8217;s lead member for communities, said: &#8220;If anyone can help with this project, I hope they come forward to help keep open a much-loved and well-used route.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Walk Wheel Cycle Trust said: &#8220;We have maintained a section of the Stop Line Way between Ilminster and Chard for many years, having built it 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is no suggestion this route will close, and we remain committed to maintaining this section as required under the terms of our lease.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders of The Friends of the Path group say they were inspired by the success of The Strawberry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205310","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\/205310","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=205310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}