{"id":617882,"date":"2025-12-07T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617882\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:10:12","slug":"salisbury-pump-track-opens-for-cyclists-skateboarders-and-scooterists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617882\/","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury pump track opens for cyclists, skateboarders and scooterists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A track has opened for cyclists, skateboarders and scooter riders to enjoy. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pump track is a continuous loop of mounds and banked turns, with the term pumping describing a way for cyclists to gain speed using the body&#8217;s up-and-down motion, without pedalling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new track was constructed in Bemerton Heath, Salisbury, after residents petitioned Wiltshire Council and the local authority agreed to provide \u00a3250,000 of funding for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leader of Wiltshire Council, Ian Thorn, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to see the Bemerton Heath Pump Track open and ready for use. This is a brilliant new space for people to be active, connect with others, and enjoy the outdoors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A track has opened for cyclists, skateboarders and scooter riders to enjoy. A pump track is a continuous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-617882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115678217705763137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617882","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=617882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}