McWilliam said saving the tunnel came down to “people power”.<\/p>\n
“We need people to make a big noise and say this is a bad use of public money, it’s a bad decision and it really shouldn’t happen,” she said.<\/p>\n
Some people had travelled from Bristol and London to attend the protest, she added.<\/p>\n
“This is not just a local issue; this is an issue that should have national attention.”<\/p>\n
She said the cycleway was “absolutely essential” to connecting Halifax, Bradford and Keighley.<\/p>\n
Judith Cummins, MP for Bradford South, said the tunnel was a “jewel in the crown of Bradford, Queensbury and Yorkshire”.<\/p>\n
“There’s hardly any of these kinds of tunnels left in the whole of Europe. It’s a real heritage going forward for future generations to have this asset,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McWilliam said saving the tunnel came down to “people power”. “We need people to make a big noise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-378285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378285","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=378285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}