{"id":414898,"date":"2025-09-11T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414898\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:27:17","slug":"faversham-gridlocked-after-whitstable-road-shut-near-love-lane-for-emergency-water-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414898\/","title":{"rendered":"Faversham gridlocked after Whitstable Road shut near Love Lane for emergency water repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A town has been plunged into \u201cbumper to bumper\u201d traffic after an emergency road closure.<\/p>\n<p>Whitstable Road in Faversham has been shut at the junction with Love Lane for water works after a pipe burst in the area earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 3024 2893\" alt=\"Traffic is building in Faversham after Whitstable Road was shut\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"RAH3X1ZO276C4CSQXMD3.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.05\"\/>Traffic is building in Faversham after Whitstable Road was shut<\/p>\n<p>No timeline for the completion of the job has been provided yet, but it has wreaked havoc across the town with reports of gridlock on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>The A2 and Newton Road are severely congested, with queues as far back as West Street.<\/p>\n<p>One driver described it as \u201cchaos\u201d and said a five-minute journey had so far taken more than an hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere you go, there are queues \u2013 the whole town is at a complete standstill,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Water has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A town has been plunged into \u201cbumper to bumper\u201d traffic after an emergency road closure. Whitstable Road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,608,495,760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-faversham","10":"tag-kent","11":"tag-traffic-and-travel","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115183776123743862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414898","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=414898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}