{"id":717196,"date":"2026-01-24T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:48:14","slug":"our-journalists-have-their-say-on-gridlocked-belfast-it-is-no-surprise-the-city-is-the-uks-most-congested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/717196\/","title":{"rendered":"Our journalists have their say on gridlocked Belfast: \u2018It is no surprise the city is the UK\u2019s most congested\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The city has been named UK\u2019s most congested, but is it really as bad as all that? Well, unless you get on your bike or hop aboard a bus, the verdict\u2019s pretty damning\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam McBride, Jessica Rice, Ciaran Dunbar, Gabrielle Swan, and Brett Campbell on their way to the Belfast Telegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4d8674a3-9897-422f-ad5b-1dda55359015.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sam McBride, Jessica Rice, Ciaran Dunbar, Gabrielle Swan, and Brett Campbell on their way to the Belfast Telegraph<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It will come as no surprise to many commuters that Belfast has been crowned the UK\u2019s most congested city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to data by mapping and location tech firm TomTom, Belfast drivers lost more than four days of time in traffic jams on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city has been named UK\u2019s most congested, but is it really as bad as all that? Well,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,23196,46029,108813,1611,1144,6410,16,15],"class_list":["post-717196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-belfast","tag-brett-campbell","tag-ciaran-dunbar","tag-gabrielle-swan","tag-jessica-rice","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sam-mcbride","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115949214391223288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717196","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=717196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}