{"id":607136,"date":"2026-05-27T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:18:11","slug":"menai-suspension-bridge-shuts-three-times-in-two-days-causing-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607136\/","title":{"rendered":"Menai Suspension Bridge shuts three times in two days causing delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gary Pritchard, leader of Anglesey council, said it was &#8220;extremely frustrating once again to see the bridge have to close, and all because someone did not adhere to the weight requirements for the bridge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating not only for us as a council, it&#8217;s frustrating for me as a resident of the island who has to fight through the traffic myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pritchard encouraged people to &#8220;abide by the restrictions&#8221;, saying &#8220;they are there for a reason&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he stressed how two bridges connecting the island to mainland Wales was &#8220;not sufficient&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need a sensible conversation about how to improve the resilience of our connection as an island with the mainland,&#8221; Pritchard added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Pritchard, leader of Anglesey council, said it was &#8220;extremely frustrating once again to see the bridge have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607136","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=607136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}