{"id":4960,"date":"2026-04-03T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:28:07","slug":"outrage-at-britains-most-expensive-cycle-lane-costing-taxpayers-4198-per-metre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4960\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage at Britain&#8217;s &#8216;most expensive&#8217; cycle lane costing taxpayers \u00a34,198 per metre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 1.2km cycle lane in Willenhall, West Midlands, UK, has been criticised as a \u201cmonumental waste of public money\u201d after costing more than \u00a35 million &#8211; around \u00a34,198 per metre. Locals and businesses say the part\u2011finished route is confusing, forcing cyclists and pedestrians to cross the road multiple times, while long\u2011running works have damaged trade. Councillor Simran Cheema called for compensation, though Walsall Council says the scheme will improve safer, more direct travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1.2km cycle lane in Willenhall, West Midlands, UK, has been criticised as a \u201cmonumental waste of public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,2869,2867,2871,2870,2866,2463,2868],"class_list":{"0":"post-4960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycle-lane","10":"tag-monumental-waste","11":"tag-public-money","12":"tag-simran-cheema","13":"tag-walsall-council","14":"tag-west-midlands","15":"tag-willenhall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116339599136642309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}