The Welcome to Wales dragon has faced other problems. Drivers noticed it was facing the wrong way, pointing right towards England instead of left towards Wales.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The choice of a white dragon rather than the traditional red was also criticised.<\/p>\n
Lack of maintenance has caused the white dragon, along with a white lion on the other side of the road, to be grown over.<\/p>\n
One online commenter said: \u201cIt\u2019s such a shame.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another said the dragon used to be a talking point, if not a source of pride, adding: \u201cI think we should resurrect it. How about we get together, embarrass our council and get it redone? Make it look good again.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the two emblems are on the English side of the border, Highways England is responsible for their maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welcome to Wales dragon has faced other problems. Drivers noticed it was facing the wrong way, pointing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,50,70833,5438,56,225,54,55,1220],"class_list":["post-686366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-roads","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-uk-news","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686366","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=686366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}