{"id":250929,"date":"2025-11-08T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:55:07","slug":"gloucestershire-cycle-spine-hailed-as-gamechanger-for-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250929\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire Cycle Spine hailed as &#8216;gamechanger&#8217; for cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Gordon, campaigns manager at charity Cycling UK, said she was impressed by the scheme during a recent visit to Cheltenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came out of the station and there was this beautiful, bright green path going exactly where I wanted to go. I didn&#8217;t have to worry about a busy roundabout, it just made it so easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people find that it feels like an easy option and gives them the confidence to get on the bike and give it a go,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she could &#8220;completely sympathise&#8221; with those frustrated by the recent roadworks and disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we have to remember that once it&#8217;s completed it will actually make journeys smoother, because once people start thinking they can cycle to university or work, that&#8217;s one less car on the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Gordon, campaigns manager at charity Cycling UK, said she was impressed by the scheme during a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250929","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\/250929","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=250929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}