{"id":585182,"date":"2026-05-15T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:52:12","slug":"letter-cycling-event-caused-gridlock-in-winchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585182\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER &#8211; &#8216;Cycling event caused gridlock in Winchester&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The centre of the city became gridlocked, and I was caught in a traffic queue in Hyde Street for 30 minutes, whilst nearly 900 cyclists made their way down North Walls.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cars were jammed nose to tail trying to get into the city from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/topics\/traffic\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">M3<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It\u2019s fine to promote a \u2018greener\u2019 way of getting around the city, but with hundreds of cars stuck in a traffic jam on many of its roads, I\u2019m not sure it achieved its objectives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I only hope that those who supported the Cycle Ride (Hampshire Constabulary and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/topics\/winchester-city-council\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winchester City Council<\/a>) and sanctioned it were also stuck in the traffic queues, which might make them think twice about holding it on a Saturday in 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Perhaps having it on a Sunday might be a better idea?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  S. Jones\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Northlands Drive,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Winchester\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Send letters by email to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/news\/26095344.letter---cycling-event-caused-gridlock-winchester\/mailto:newsdesk@hampshirechronicle.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">newsdesk@hampshirechronicle.co.uk<\/a> or by post to Editor, Hampshire Chronicle, 5 Upper Brook Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AL.\u00a0<br \/>All letters and e-mails must include full names and addresses (anonymous letters will not be published), although these details may be withheld from publication, on request, if the reason justifies it.\u00a0<br \/>Letters of 300 words or less will be given priority, although all are subject to editing for reasons of clarity, space, or legal requirements. We reserve the right to edit letters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The centre of the city became gridlocked, and I was caught in a traffic queue in Hyde Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585182","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=585182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}