{"id":725869,"date":"2026-08-03T11:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:10:15","slug":"drivers-warned-over-lawnswood-roundabout-roadworks-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725869\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers warned over Lawnswood Roundabout roadworks closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, a local business owner told the BBC she did not think enough cyclists used the roundabout to justify all the disruption. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The owner of West Park Caf\u00e9, Jane McManus, said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not entirely sure what they&#8217;re doing to be honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it&#8217;s all about pedestrians and cyclists, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve done the right thing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she added that the noise from the roadworks was &#8220;not a big deal&#8221; as people were used to being on a busy road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beatrice Rogers, who has lived near the roundabout for the last 50 years, told the BBC she predicted &#8220;serious hold-ups&#8221; once the works were complete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s idiocy. It wasn&#8217;t necessary&#8230;.in my opinion they&#8217;ve wasted a great deal of money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It did need some upgrading, but the only upgrading it needed was four traffic lights one at each corner so as to give pedestrians safety in crossing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think people using the roundabout are going to get a shock when they realise buses will have priority, absolute priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, a local business owner told the BBC she did not think enough cyclists used the roundabout to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725869","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=725869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}