Cllr Charlie Hicks 🌹
@Charlie_Hicks_
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🌹🐝 Labour & Co-operative Councillor for Cowley on @OxfordshireCC | Cities & Future Generations Policy 🚌🌿
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No1 rule in transport and city planning:
✨ “Build it and they will come” ✨
Business is booming. Wildlife is returning. Community is coming back together
This is building back better. Let’s do more of this! 🌱👩🏻🦽🌺 🚴🏾♀️☕️💷🌍🚶🏼♂️✨
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Car ownership is positively correlated with income
And so, any pro-car policy increases the size of the gap between rich and poor to have access to society
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We need to talk space-efficiency in transport 📏📐
Why is it that while technological advancement in other sectors goes to micro, for cars it’s gone macro? 🐭🐘
We’ve only got a finite space to work with in cities! Why are we using that space for bigger metal boxes? 🤷🏼♂️
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From the last 18 months working on LTNs, if there's one message I could share with any local govt candidate or councillor, it would be this👇
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Broad Street pedestrianisation step 1: parking removed ✅
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New cycle lanes across Oxford approved! 🎉🚲
Real change happens when we win elections in local government👇🏼
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For anyone wondering, 15 minute cities are *really popular* with the British public 👇🏼
@YouGov
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LTNs work 👍🏼🌱🚲🚶🏽♀️
🚗📉Car use down
🚶🏽♀️🚲📈 Walking and cycling up
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To the producers and director of Wonka filming today in Oxford, this is what the transport system looked like in 1930s Oxford 🎩
You seem to be missing something 🚲
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Business is booming inside the LTN today 🌱🌿🏃🏿🚶🏽♀️🚲🧑🏾🦽👍
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All too often we forget the negative impact of our collective choices on the youngest in society
Children don’t have a vote and can’t input to the council’s decisions
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are a massive improvement for the safety and liveability of streets for children 🌱
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Good news! The new Temple Road bollard has been installed 🌱🚶🏽🚲
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The data is in. There have been over *1 million* fewer car trips in Cowley since the LTNs were installed. This is traffic evaporation in action 🌱🚶🏽♂️🚲👇🏼
One MILLION car trips disappeared in and around the Cowley LTNs since their launch just over 500 days ago (-2k car trips/day net). Traffic evaporation works.
Data from p48 & 53 of , extrapolated over full 500 days. Chart my own.
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I’m convinced the future of urban transport is the eBike and eCargoBike 🚲
🚵♂️ Hills? Flattened
🔋Limited mobility? A electric motor for that extra help
📦 Business deliveries? Sorted
Now it’s on us at
@OxfordshireCC
to build the infrastructure to match 🏗👷🏼♂️🌱
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The first filter for the Florence Park LTN is in! Here on Littlehay Road 🌱☀️
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These street scars show the damage heavy vehicles do to Queens St & the lack of self-respect to patch them up with original materials
(a) should we prevent buses here to stop broken pavestones?
(b) how do we get
@OxfordshireCC
& contractors to use original materials to fix?
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Great to see that the pedestrianisation of Broad Street looks likely to be made permanent!
Next goal — permanent greening and beautification! 🧱🌿
The new-look Broad Street is set to be given permanent status next week.
@OxfordshireCC
officers have recommended that a permanent Traffic Regulation Order is made, following up the experimental TRO in place since July 2022 which removed the pay & display parking.
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Following COP26 and wondering what you can do to help? 🌍 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏿
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This is why I love Cowley so much ♥️✨
In the face of adversity people across Cowley have come together to show positivity, community and solidarity for their Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This resilience and these values are how we will build a better post-Covid society 🌱👨👦🚴♂️
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The Iffley Road cycle lanes are taking shape! 🚲
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Cars are the cause of congestion and poor bus services in Oxford. Always have been and they are now. If you want faster buses you need to advocate for fewer cars
Two years! Two years before the LTNs went in. So all you calling on the requirement for better bus services remember this... There is never any carrot with a stick.
Bus service 'wasn't profitable' due to traffic delays in Oxford
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We must put freedom of choice at the heart of our transport system
For many that means making walking, cycling and public transport safe, easy & convenient
In some of the poorest areas in Oxford, over 50% of households do not own a car. We must make moving around easy for them
Cllr
@charlie_hicks_
(Lab, Cowley): “Car use is down 10%. Cycling is up 20%. This is giving more freedom of choice. A third of Oxford residents do not own a car. Freedom of choice for these people means walking, cycling and buses being safe and convenient.”
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Turning space for car storage into space for people is great for community, business and generally good vibes 😎 ✨🌱
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There’s no way around this hard truth👇🏼
If we want better buses in Oxford, we need to reduce private car use 🚌
That means we need to introduce evidence-based policies that work: traffic filters, workplace parking levy and zero emissions zone
Oxfordshire traffic puts bus funding at risk, warns local firm
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Rush hour on Oxford Road, by the LTNs, this morning (8.42am)...
Can we conclude that LTNs caused these empty, quiet streets?
It's possible, but we need more data than one time point!
We need to use traffic counts over a long period of time to know the effect 📊🚲 🚶♀️
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Running a car costs much more than you think 🚗 💷📉👇🏼
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Here’s the polling data behind it from across the UK: London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Ipswich, Salford
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Prof Devi Sridhar has been just about the most reliable person in the country to listen to throughout the entire pandemic
Here’s her take on the India variant 👇🏼
UK in a precarious position w/ B.1617. We have tools to help stop spread. Get vaccinated, get tested (& isolate if you're positive), avoid crowded places, meet people outdoors, wear masks indoors & remember that the end is in sight, but we need to tread cautiously now.
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Thank you Cowley for putting your trust in me and electing me to be your County Councillor 🌹
I will work as hard as I can to represent the whole Cowley community
Thank you to John for his 16 years of service to Cowley
Anything relating to County Council, please reach out!
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This is desperately sad for the business owner who is plunged into turmoil & incredibly scary for residents to see this danger on their doorstep
We should not accept this danger on our streets as normal
@tvprp
need to step up their enforcement of 20mph to keep our streets safe
A vehicle has crashed into a parade of shops on Oxford's Iffley Road. It is not known how the accident took place or if there were any casualties but police are on the scene. The speed limit on this road is 20mph.
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LTNs are a hugely impressive public health policy that help the NHS and the economy 👇🏼
Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds
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When you ask a representative group of people if they want policies to reduce car-dominance where they live in favour of a fair and balanced transport system, the answer pretty consistently comes out at 2:1 in favour
Here, 2:1 in favour of Oxford traffic filters 👩🏽🦽🚶🏻🚲🚌🚙🌱
60% of Oxford residents support
@OxfordshireCC
’s proposed traffic filters, according to a new
@YouGov
poll. 30% are opposed and 10% don’t know. The filters will restrict the number of cars passing at six key points across the city.
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Great to hear feedback from 11-17 year olds in Oxfordshire on our budget proposals
Young people’s number 1 priority: investment in integrated and sustainable transport 🚲🌱🚌🌍🚉
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🚨 Cowley LTN bollard update 🚨
The unlockable and removable bollard is in on Temple Road, which will prevent shortcutting traffic and create a quieter and safer street for residents and school children (and pets!) 🚸🏃🏼♀️🚶🏽🤸🏾🐈⬛🐕
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Speeding and dangerous driving is the most experienced & most perceived crime by Thames Valley residents
And yet the Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley sits idly by and doesn’t endorse
#VisionZero
We need a change in leadership at Thames Valley Police 👇🏼
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LTNs in Oxford are working 👍
They have reduced total car trips in Oxford by thousands already 🏃🏿👩🏻🦽🚶🏼♀️🚲🌿
Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme coming on Friday to my neighbourhood.
Very exciting to see this measure being trialled here. Main opposition from drivers who do not live here and use our local roads as rat runs.
@OxfordMailLive
@OxfordCity
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I have objected to this scheme given that it does not align with our updated transport policy on putting walking and cycling first. I encourage you to do the same 👇
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When I ran doorstep surveys throughout Cowley Division asking around 1000 residents about the local LTNs, I got very similar figures to this — roughly 2:1 support
A second
@YouGov
poll commissioned by
@OxLivSts
and
@CoHSATOxon
shows 56% of Oxford residents support Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, with 29% opposed and 15% neither. The ‘omnibus’ poll, carried out last month, was based on a sample of 249 residents regularly polled by YouGov.
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Broad Street in Oxford would look SO much more beautiful and inviting with greenery and brick paving 🌱🧱🤩
Here are some AI images of Broad Street with a touch of Dutch streets added, thanks to
@Cycling_Embassy
, compared to how it looked 3 years ago
Which is your favourite?👇🏼
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Cowley is leading the way, with the first new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Oxford and Oxfordshire for many years 🌱👨🏻🦽🚶🏼♀️🚴🏾♂️
It’s great to see the first modal filters go in, helping to create safer and quieter streets for residents across Cowley
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“The traffic has simply disappeared and we don’t know where it’s gone”
When you remove road space from cars, many people choose to switch their mode of transport and leave their car at home. It happened for Cornmarket, and it’s happening for LTNs too 👍
On this day in 1999, Cornmarket Street was pedestrianised as part of the Oxford Transport Strategy. Here’s what it used to look like and what people told Oxford’s newspapers at the time. Pic by .
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This is nonsense. Residents across East Oxford don’t want their streets to become more dangerous.
Hundreds of children use these streets to walk and cycle to school every day. Parents want their children to stay safe.
High st bus gate opened, but yet again East Oxford residents IGNORED
Open Cornwallis Rd Bartholomew Rd NOW. Give residents some respect
@AndrewGant3
@OxfordshireCC
#LTNS
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Reducing car use makes our society more equal 🌱🌿🚲🏃🏿
🚗 26% of the top 10% of households by income own three or more cars; 2.6% of the bottom 60% do.
🚗 93% of the top 10% of households by income own cars; 35% of the bottom 10% do.
🚗 89% of homeowners own cars; 43% of council tenants do.
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We've heard that one before ... ⚰️
So much for the fear-mongering, local businesses in Waltham Forest are now thriving 💷☕️🛍️🍻🌱
@Labourstone
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Delighted to be appointed Champion for Future Generations at
@OxfordshireCC
!
My aim is to learn from the work of
@futuregencymru
@JaneBryngwyn
@SophieHowe
@romankrznaric
& others and apply it here so our decisions are made in the interests of future generations 🌱👩👧👦🌍
Cllr Charlie Hicks
@Charlie_Hicks_
has been appointed as the council’s Champion for Future Generations, a new post which aims to ensure policies are drawn up with the interests of young people and their successors at heart.
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We are worthy of public luxury and treating ourselves with dignity in how we maintain our public spaces — we should stop scarring our streets like this
#StreetScar
We’ve all seen this: the freshly laid paving, newly laid granite setts or Yorkstones lovingly laid on a slow street or in front of a freshly repaired parade of shops. Within months, weeks or, sometimes days, a slice or a square of them are pulled up thoughtlessly...
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Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods update 🚴🏽♂️👩🏽🦽🌿🚗
Here's a breakdown of the pre-implementation consultation. There is a big majority of residents in favour of going ahead with the LTN experiments across all 3 areas
Now over to
@OxfordshireCC
to deliver. Let's do this! 🚴🏽♂️👩🏽🦽🌍
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And where does this get us?
Let’s look at land-use and transport together to build 15 minute neighbourhoods 🏪🚶🏻🚲
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Violence against women and girls exists throughout our society, not least on our roads
Below is from London, but could be anywhere in the UK
This should be at the top of the agenda for any politician responsible for safety on our roads
@AndrewGant3
@matthew_barber
@TimLabour
💥 "GET OFF THE ROAD, BITCH!" 9/10 women cycling in London face abuse says new LCC survey. CW: swearing, abuse descriptions
Sign the
#FreedomToRide
petition & share to add your voice >>
Full report:
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🚨 Cowley LTN bollard update 🚨
Four fixed pavement bollards are in on Rymers Lane. This will prevent people driving cars up on the pavements, making it safer for pedestrians, buggy and wheelchair users 👩🏻🦽🧑🏾🦼🧑🏻🦯🚶🏽
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Today the Lib-Lab-Green Oxfordshire Fair Deal Alliance passed Oxfordshire County Council’s first non-Tory budget in its entire 133 year history 🎉
Lots to celebrate inc a new county Youth Service & investment in rail, buses, walking and cycling 🚌🚶🏽🚲
Winning elections matters!
The first non-Tory County Budget in history has just been passed by
@OxfordshireCC
. We have big plans and are just getting started!
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Important caveat!
These are averages — my guess is that whether people can walk to the shops is an important factor to add in 🏪🚶🏽
Green = closer to the shops = less car dependent, more walkable = more pro-LTN
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The Cowley LTN data is out. Looks pretty good! 🎉 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
NEW: What effect have the Cowley LTNs had on traffic in East Oxford? Results from traffic sensors answer the question:
⬇️ Traffic is down within the LTNs by up to 51%
⬆️ On most ‘boundary roads’ it’s up… but only by 3%
🌹 Rose Hill North is up 11%, but Hollow Way North down 8%
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Over the last 18 months, Cowley’s streets have been transformed into spaces people enjoy and feel safe in moving around by foot or pedal 🌱🚶🏻♀️🧑🏽🦽🚲
Many thanks to Cabinet who made the decision today and to all who’ve worked over the last few years to make this a reality 🙏🏼✨
Oxfordshire County Council Cabinet has agreed unanimously to make Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods permanent, and to consider changes (possibly including ANPR cameras) by spring 2023.
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Cllr Constance at
@OxfordshireCC
finds in favour of implementing Cowley’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods! 🌍🌱🚴🏽♂️🚗🧑🏾🦽🎉
The schemes will be started in February and March this year
Congratulations to everyone involved! 🌹🎉👏🏼
@OxLivSts
@Urban_Turbo
@Oxford_Labour
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A reminder about why Cowley has been chosen for the LTN trials. We have been suffering from lots of shortcutting traffic
It's not possible to shortcut through the yellow/orange shaded areas. All these areas already are LTNs
These changes are to bring Cowley up to the same level
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The first of the Cowley LTN filters is in, bringing quieter and safer streets 🌱
The LTNs will be installed across Cowley with a staggered start over the next 3 weeks
For full details, see:
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This is what it looks like to make pedestrians the priority
These deadly, soul-crushing curves are everywhere and were deliberately designed to allow motorists to take corners fast. They can be deliberately undesigned. HT
@pinoyurbanist
@fietsprofessor
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Business is booming in Jericho! ✨
This used to be car parking! Now it’s a valuable space for people and for businesses 🍕☕️💷🚲🌿
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I’m pleased that we have passed this new
@OxfordshireCC
transport plan which outlines our goals to reduce car use and increase all other modes. But the plan is the easy bit. We need complete focus on turning aspiration into reality 🚶🏻🚶🏻♀️🧑🏾🦽🚲 🚌🚊🚡🚈🌱
Delighted to see
@OxfordshireCC
full council has unanimously approved the
#LocalTransportConnectivityPlan
. Now the Council needs to make it happen to get rapid modal shift, ⬇️car journeys and ⬆️walking ⬆️cycling and ⬆️public transport. This heatwave shows how urgent the task is.
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🚨 Cowley LTN bollard update 🚨
The Clive Road bollard is in!
We’re now one step closer to having a completed Florence Park LTN (just the ANPR camera on the bus gate to go)
2 more bollards in the van, which I’m told will go in at Junction Rd and Crescent Rd later today!
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Here’s 21st century transport infrastructure with a 21st century delivery service 🚲🌱📦🌍
LTNs are helping make our transport system greener, cleaner and healthier, delivering on our priorities at
@OxfordshireCC
🔸🌹🌱
☀️B-e-a-utiful day to be out riding in east Oxford
🚴 Really friendly people have been asking about the eTrikes today - these two are out delivering parcels
📦 Hopefully cargo bikes become the norm as deliveries go ultra low emission!
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My main takeaway from COP26: much more needs to be done to raise the profile of walking, cycling and public transport🚶🏽♀️🚴🏽 🚌 🌱
One place to start: it's gonna be a lot harder and more expensive to update infrastructure for electric cars than for any of the above
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It was great to welcome in Cowley’s newest bus service, the no46, with fellow Cllr
@paulascachette
! 🚌
Residents in Florence Park will once again be connected via bus to the local swimming pool and centre of town. Thank you
@OxfordBusCo
@OxfordshireCC
and campaigners 🎉🙏🏼
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Let's bring buses back into public control in Oxfordshire! Thank you
@ACORNOxford
for this very important campaign 👇
ACORN member Rachel with Charlie Hicks, Labour & Co-operative, Cowley ward,
@Charlie_Hicks_
, flying the ACORN banner (3/x)
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I’m over a year into the role as councillor where I’ve been consistently calling for safer cycling infrastructure — it feels *wonderful* to now see changes happening on the ground — change can be slow and painstaking, but let ensure this is just the start! 🚲🚲🌱🌱
This was my son's cycling route home from school. Parked cars, opening doors, squeezed road space and no separation from motorised traffic made this a dangerous journey.
Glad to see
@OxfordshireCC
making Oxford safer for our kids. 👏👏👏
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Talking about the impact of the Cowley LTNs, Liz said how they have helped her use her car less and exercise more, how it's good for the community and that this is helping to address the climate emergency 🌍
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Bad news! The bollard survived less than 24 hours! 😢
Someone unilaterally decided that their convenience to drive their car down a side street past a primary school was more important than children's safety walking and cycling to school, using their car to ram and take it out
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Great coverage of Oxford’s transport plans by
@SkyNews
with a valuable lesson👇🏼
Ghent had to weather a big backlash to become the greener & healthier city it is today. The Mayor said it was a bumpy ride but very worth it!🚶🏽♂️👩🏼🦼🚲🚌🚊🚙🌱
Fab reporting, thanks
@tomheapmedia
! 🙏🏼
The Climate Show went to Ghent, a city of approaching half a million people, to look at how bikes can beat cars to help transport go green
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Honoured and excited that I’ve been selected as the
@Oxford_Labour
candidate to stand in Cowley for the Oxfordshire County Council elections! 🌹
I’m standing in May 2021 to work hard for the people of Cowley and to prioritise
🏥 Health
🌍 Climate Justice
💪🏽 Social Justice
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I’m calling on Cllr Constance at
@OxfordshireCC
to say yes to the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods experiments in Cowley, for cleaner air, safer streets and a more liveable neighbourhood 👩🏻🦽🚴🏽♂️🚗 🌱🌍
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I’m a strong advocate for all of Oxford City inside the ring road to become 20mph
There would be huge safety benefits as this case study evidence shows. It would be a valuable step towards to Vision Zero
@AndrewGant3
@misteredgeley
@20sPlentyOxon
Belfast and Edinburgh reduced their speed limits from 30 mph to 20. The result:
"The main outcome of these schemes was a reduction in road casualties at all levels of severity."
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I spoke yesterday in the decision meeting against this proposal, as I do not believe it is what is best for Cowley residents. The last minute change to the recommendations did not - in my view - take sufficient account of Vision Zero. Sadly the decision went the other way
To explain the subtweet, today the County Council's Cabinet Member for Highway Management approved Oxford's first Taxi Superhighway, allowing taxis an exclusive shortcut through otherwise closed residential areas.
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We need to take bold and radical action to make Oxford and all of Oxfordshire safe for cycling, so that whether you are 8 or 80 you feel comfortable to get around on a bicycle 🚲
Oxford is known as the cycling city, but is it actually safe for cyclists? 🚴
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Congestion in Oxford is the core issue we must solve to improve our transport system 🚌🚲🚶🏼
🌹
@LabourOxon
successfully turned the Tory protest motion into a motion of responsible government and it was voted through unanimously
My speech from Tuesday's Full Council meeting🎥👇🏼
Cllr
@charlie_hicks_
(Lab, Cowley) seconding: “The Conservatives have become now the party of protest. To be in Government, you should lead. Congestion is the issue. Our amendment turns this from a protest motion to one of responsible government.”
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Still too many people die on our roads every year
We’re making roads across Oxfordshire safer, healthier and greener through rolling out 20mphs in areas across the county 👇🏼
We'd all like our roads to be safer, with cleaner, less polluted air.
Communities across the county are choosing to bring their local speed in built up areas down to 20mph.
See how your community can reduce to 20
#20MPH
#SaferPaceSaferPlace
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Delighted that we at
@OxfordshireCC
have unanimously passed this motion to put the Wellbeing of Future Generations at the heart of everything we do to shift our policymaking from short-termism to long term thinking, inspired by
@futuregencymru
@WelshLabour
@romankrznaric
🥳🎉🌹
We’re now onto motions from councillors. First up is
@Charlie_Hicks_
(Lab, Cowley) who is advocating making policy with “the wellbeing of Future Generations” in mind, following an Act passed in Wales. “In Wales this has led to diverting money from motorways to public transport.”
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🚨 Cowley LTN bollard update 🚨
Crescent Road and Junction Road bollards are in
And with that, Cowley has its first fully installed LTN!
✅ Temple Cowley
🚌 Florence Park (waiting for bus gate)
🚌 Church Cowley (waiting for bus gate)
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More Low Traffic Neighbourhood trials coming to East Oxford in March 2022! 🌱🚶♀️👩🦽 🚴 🌍
This would not have been possible without the huge campaigning effort by
@bigdamo
and many local residents over the last 3 years. Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
I was elected to deliver a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in "my" division. Today that dream became a reality, the decision to progress has been signed off. Well done to all who were on this journey with us. It will deliver for all, residents and businesses.
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Car use is down, cycling is up — traffic evaporation is happening. LTNs are working.
LTNs are a hugely effective policy tool for increasing active travel — good for safety, health, wellbeing and the climate 🌍🚶🏽♀️👨🏼🦽🚲🌱
#evidencebasedpolicy
#whatworks
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) work.
New research comparing results from 10 schemes shows:
🚴♀️use rose by between 31% and 172%
🚗traffic fell by between 22% and 76%
🏘traffic increases on boundary roads limited
Great piece
@peterwalker99
@guardian
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Broad Meadow showing us what public luxury looks like 🙌🌱🌳☀️🌿✨
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I continue to be concerned that in taking decisions on highways changes in Oxon, Vision Zero is not prioritised highly enough
Public Health, Fire & Rescue and Highways should all be accountable for preventing road violence. I’ll be taking this up with
@AndrewGant3
@LeyNathan
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Oxfords’s transport plans are very similar to what Ghent has delivered
This is the outcome you get
Rather than polluted streets with bumper-to-bumper traffic, the city becomes a more pleasant place to be AND everyone can still travel anywhere by any mode they want🚶🏽♂️👩🏼🦼🚲🚌🚙
Ghent is my favourite city - in this short video I explain why
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Cities and places have finite space. How do you think it should be used?
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@ahawksbee
A good science education teaches pupils not to cherry-pick the data! Here’s the decade to 2018 to help fill in the gaps 👀
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To anyone calling for delay on the East Oxford LTNs, (
@CllrTomHayes
@P_Southall_OBC
), please read DfT Gear Change: One Year On and Minister of State for Transport's letter
2 important messages: 1) LTNs *reduce* congestion on boundary roads over time, 2) DfT would cut funding
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Great to see new local businesses springing up on Magdalen Road (especially ones with delicious raspberry cheesecake brownie!) 😋 🍫🍰
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It was hugely exciting to volunteer at The Leys Health Centre to help vaccinate over a thousand 80+s just before Christmas 💉
Amazing work from Hollow Way, Temple Cowley, Donnington and The Leys GP practices 👏🏼
Thank you to everyone working on the vaccine roll-out! ✨
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Pavement parking really is the worst. Govt should outlaw it. Please don’t do it 👇🏼
“Please just don’t park on the pavement.”
A Yorkshire man has shared this footage of his guide dog to warn people about pavement parking.
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Pleased to see
@OxfordshireCC
be recognised as the top performing County Council in the UK on Climate (but there’s much more to do!)👇🏼
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Hey
@matthew_barber
are you asleep? Huge amounts of criminal damage is happening on your watch. Please sort it out
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A key principle for creating a fair and just transport system for the 21st century:
⭐️ Everyone needs access to movement
🚗 Access to movement is not the same as driving a private car
🚶🏽♀️🚲🚌 🚗🚊🌱Access to movement = a transport system with a choice of multiple ways to move
Cllr
@Charlie_Hicks_
(Lab, Cowley): “Movement does not have to mean a privately owned metal box with four wheels. We need a shift in how we think. Think back to cigarette bans in pubs, or car seatbelts: people don’t remember nitty-gritty details, they remember if a policy works.”
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