{"id":724025,"date":"2026-08-02T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:09:08","slug":"mammal-ledges-built-beneath-new-a421-dual-carriageway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724025\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mammal ledges&#8217; built beneath new A421 dual carriageway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Salmon, senior project manager with National Highways, said: &#8220;Protecting the environment is central to both the design and construction of our scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Features like this help to improve habitat connectivity and support local wildlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that they had a deep understanding of the local environment as a result of extensive survey work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim of the road project is to reduce congestion and speed up journey times, with about 80,000 drivers using the Black Cat roundabout each weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new 10-mile (16km) A421 dual carriageway is due to open in Spring 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Salmon, senior project manager with National Highways, said: &#8220;Protecting the environment is central to both the design&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724025","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\/724025","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=724025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}