{"id":395137,"date":"2025-09-03T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:56:10","slug":"leeds-roundabout-flags-could-cause-crashes-says-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395137\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds roundabout flags could cause crashes, says council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Union jacks and St George&#8217;s flags have been appearing in communities across the country since mid-July and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c626vxyxgj6o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divided opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some view them as a patriotic gesture, while others regard them as a challenge to the presence of asylum seekers and of people not born in the UK more generally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of councils have already taken action to remove flags from lamp-posts while others have said they will leave them in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: &#8220;We are aware a number of flags have been placed on lamp columns and several mini roundabouts and crossings have been painted across parts of Leeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would urge residents to please refrain from doing this because it could cause confusion for motorists unfamiliar with the local road layout and potentially lead to accidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added that returning roundabouts and street markings to their original state &#8220;diverts limited resources away from other important highways work&#8221; and warned of the dangers of working in the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said: &#8220;Anything that causes a highways risk or potential damage to infrastructure will be removed quickly whilst repainting road markings will take place where needed as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union jacks and St George&#8217;s flags have been appearing in communities across the country since mid-July and have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141658793022364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}