{"id":404277,"date":"2026-02-02T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404277\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:42:07","slug":"weight-limit-in-force-on-glen-etive-road-made-famous-by-bond-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404277\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight limit in force on Glen Etive road made famous by Bond film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An 18-tonne weight limit has been introduced on a road in Glen Etive which featured in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Highland Council said the route was &#8220;sensitive and structurally vulnerable&#8221; because it was built over long stretches of peat without the traditional foundations to support the road on the soft soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local authority said the road, south-east of Fort William, experienced &#8220;significant pressures&#8221; due to high visitor numbers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said the weight restriction was approved so that the road remained safe for residents and visitors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-tonne weight limit has been introduced on a road in Glen Etive which featured in the 2012&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-404277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404277","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=404277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}