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Happy Friday! The Clarion weekly roundup is out. Featuring flying taxis, the Oxford University Chancellor election, and some puppies. All the news from this week, plus some bonus extras. If you subscribe, it gets delivered to your inbox, free. 👇👇
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Applications to become the next Chancellor of
@UniofOxford
closed on Sunday. Elish Angiolini, Imran Khan and William Hague have all confirmed they are candidates, while Peter Mandelson is widely tipped to be running.
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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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Cyclist killed in HGV collision at the Plain named in court as Dr Suet Ling Felce, a researcher at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine
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Oxford–Bristol direct trains are coming back – though in a small way at first. From 14 September, GWR is planning to run two return services between the cities on Saturdays, using 125mph Intercity trains. A direct service last ran in 2003.
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Outline proposals for an Oxfordshire-wide cycle network have been published by
@OxfordshireCC
. The “Strategic Active Travel Network” would link Oxfordshire’s market towns, from Henley to Banbury, via paths and traffic-calmed roads.
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Plans to semi-pedestrianise Broad Street could be adopted by
@OxfordshireCC
tomorrow. The scheme would see two Broad Meadow-like public spaces, pay-and-display parking removed, more bike parking, and a loading ban: “less like a highway, more like a place for people”.
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East West Rail, the project to reopen the railway from Oxford to Cambridge, has announced its preferred route east of Bedford. The line would cross the East Coast Main Line at Tempsford, pass the new town of Cambourne, then approach Cambridge from the south.
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Oxfordshire’s election results:
🌹Banbury: Lab GAIN
🔶Bicester & Woodstock: LibDem GAIN
🔶Didcot & Wantage: LibDem GAIN
🔶Henley & Thame: LibDem GAIN
🌹Oxford East: Lab HOLD
🔶Oxford West & Abingdon: LibDem HOLD
🔶Witney: LibDem GAIN
LibDem 5 (+4), Lab 2 (+1), Con 0 (-5).
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🗳 Oxfordshire election headlines:
🟩 Greens make 3 gains in Oxford
🚩 Labour keep firm control of city
🚗 Anti-LTN Independents fail to capture seats
🔵 Conservatives lose control of West Oxfordshire
🔶 Big LibDem gains across West Oxon, plus 1 Lab & 1 Grn
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Oxford has been reconnected to Milton Keynes by rail – though there’s still a while before passenger trains will run. A track-laying machine made the connection at lunchtime today, at the point where the East-West Rail line crosses HS2.
CONGRATULATIONS! The East West Rail Alliance
@VolkerRailUK
@Laing_ORourke
@atkinsrealis
@networkrail
have joined the Down Bletchley track at Calvert this lunchtime with the
@balfourbeatty
NTC. 13 June the NTC was there laying track!
@LordPeterHendy
@RailDeliveryGrp
@railindustry
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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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The concept of a countywide cycle network for Oxfordshire has got the go-ahead. The Strategic Active Travel Network, approved at a meeting this afternoon, will link towns, villages and railway stations through traffic-free and low-traffic routes.
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Oxford City Council has ordered £35,000 of benches, plants and steel planters for Market Street, by the northern entrance to the Covered Market. They will be delivered by May in time for the experimental pedestrianisation scheme this summer. Funding comes from a Government grant.
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The new £6.9m Covered Market masterplan was signed off by
@OxfordCity
’s Cabinet yesterday. Its standout feature is a redesign of the Market Street entrance: a traffic-free public square with seating on the street, and a ‘communal space’ within the market with a glazed roof.
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Oxford’s traffic filter plan unveiled: roads will be closed to private cars at 6 locations, now including St Clements. Blue badge holders & taxis will be exempt. The aim is “to work together to reduce traffic on roads with high volumes of buses & cyclists”
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A new cycleway has been approved on Kennington Road and Whites Lane past Radley – creating a traffic-free route all the way from Oxford to Abingdon, and improving
@sustrans
National Cycle Route 5. Construction is expected to start in the next 9–12 months.
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Oxford estate agents Strutt & Parker are testing out electric bikes for their agents to get about town. George Hughes, head of sales, said: “We need to attend appointments in the most efficient & sustainable way possible. The team’s feedback on our first bike has been fantastic.”
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First West Oxfordshire result of the day: the Liberal Democrats have taken
@JeremyClarkson
’s ward from the Conservatives.
Chadlington & Churchill: LibDem 342, Con 210, Lab 55.
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LONG READ:
“Impeccably balanced” – the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood reporting
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The £300m HIF1 Didcot relief road has been refused planning permission by
@OxfordshireCC
’s planning committee, voting 7 against, 2 for. The committee heard arguments yesterday that the traffic forecasts were implausible and the road went against county transport policies.
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The plastic bollards in Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are to be replaced with steel ones over the next 12 weeks, following “unprecedented levels of vandalism”
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Reopening the Cowley railway branch to passengers has moved a step closer.
@OxfordCity
has awarded a £499,000 contract for design work around the two new stations: Oxford Science Park (near Littlemore) and Oxford Business Park (Blackbird Leys).
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How did we get to the situation where a cyclist could be tragically killed at the Plain? A thread:
This is the busiest cycling location in Oxford, and one of just a few A-roads in the UK where bikes outnumber cars (Magdalen Bridge, 2019: 12850 bikes, 10229 cars – Govt stats).
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Broad Street is go!
@OxfordshireCC
has rubber-stamped the 18-month trial for removing parking and (semi-)pedestrianising the road. Council leader Liz Leffman, standing in for
@andrewgant3
at today’s meeting, has given the go-ahead: “I’m delighted we’re moving forward with this.”
Plans to semi-pedestrianise Broad Street could be adopted by
@OxfordshireCC
tomorrow. The scheme would see two Broad Meadow-like public spaces, pay-and-display parking removed, more bike parking, and a loading ban: “less like a highway, more like a place for people”.
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Work is underway on a business case for reopening the Oxford–Eynsham–Witney railway line, commissioned by
@OxfordshireCC
. The study will consider if increased land values could help pay for the line, as happened with London’s Elizabeth Line.
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World famous cycling influencers
@sigirides
took a trip to Oxford, and a tour round east Oxford. Stopping in 'Magdalen Road Village' they took in Caper bookshop, to see Travis and Sigi's book,then on to the Goldfish Bowl before heading to Aleppo's Falafel on the Cowley Rd.
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The former parking spaces in the middle of Broad Street have been coned off as work proceeds on its (partial) pedestrianisation
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A Downing Street study, allegedly buried by No.10, found that LTNs work and are popular, says the
@guardian
in a new article. The data mirrors a YouGov poll carried out in Oxford in 2022 which found 56% supported LTNs while only 29% opposed.
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Proposals to open the Cowley Branch Line to passenger trains will be under discussion at a drop-in event tomorrow at the Jungle Art Gallery, Templars Square (4-6pm). Two new stations are planned with through trains to Oxford, Parkway, and London Marylebone.
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Oxford hospital staff are to get free Park & Ride bus travel from the end of April. Staff at the JR, Churchill and Nuffield will simply need to show their ID badge to the bus driver to be let on for free at Thornhill, Redbridge or Oxford Parkway.
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Robin Tucker,
@CoHSATOxon
: “Imagine if your predecessors had listened to those in 1999 who thought cars should still have free run of the High Street. Instead we have a thriving city centre. It’s people, not cars, who shop.”
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Blenheim Palace has unveiled plans for three solar farms around Oxford – in Woodstock, Bladon/Cassington, and Cumnor. Taken together, at 840 megawatts, the combined site would become the biggest in the UK.
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A study into a rail link between Witney and Oxford concludes that it would be feasible to build and profitable in operation, but would cost £700m–£900m to construct. Journey times would be 16 minutes Witney–Oxford.
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School Streets have been made permanent this morning for Larkrise, St Ebbe’s, Windmill and St Nicolas (Abingdon). The
@OxfordshireCC
meeting heard from parents and other speakers who urged OCC to go further and create more School Streets across the city.
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Oxford City Council has refused permission for advertising giant JC Decaux to erect 2.6m-high screens on Queen Street & Norfolk Street. It called them “a harmful & discordant feature… unduly prominent and dominant… detrimental impact on pedestrians in an area of heavy footfall”
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Trains from Oxford to Milton Keynes Central, starting next year, will take just 44 minutes – a journey that can take up to 2hr by car. Although passenger services will not start until late 2025, the slots have been set out in the new timetable.
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Hundreds have gathered in East Oxford to protest against racist intimidation and to support refugee organisations such as Asylum Welcome. The crowd is chanting “Say it loud and clear, refugees are welcome here.”
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County council pledges to “make safe and reinstate all damaged LTN bollards that have been forcibly knocked down or uprooted… Vandalism of this kind is a serious criminal offence. It does not achieve anything and will not deter us from delivering our objectives.”
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Sewage is now being discharged into almost every river upstream of Oxford. Thames Water treatment plants on the Cherwell, Windrush, Ray, Evenlode and the Thames itself are dumping sewage via their storm overflows. In Witney, the discharge has now been going for over 100 hours.
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The five Oxfordshire Liberal Democrat MPs have tabled a motion calling on Ofwat to not allow Thames Water’s 23% increase in water bills set to hit consumers over the next 5 years.
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Four people have been arrested in connection with vandalism and threatening behaviour around Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, according to
@OxLivSts
. Police held a meeting on Monday with councillors, neighbours and local groups to discuss concerns around enforcement.
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Good morning! It’s
@OxfordshireCC
’s extraordinary cabinet meeting to consider the traffic filters/bus gates and the Central Oxfordshire Traffic Plan. There are some 50 people lined up to speak before the cabinet makes its decision.
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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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🔶LibDems win Bicester & Woodstock with
@CalumMillerLD
winning out over
@RbrHarrison
. There are no Conservative MPs remaining in Oxfordshire.
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Air pollution on the boundary roads around Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is now lower than before they were introduced in 2021, according to new figures from
@OxfordCity
. NO₂ concentrations dropped by between 12.5% and 28.3% between 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2023.
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Oxfordshire turns down the chance to become an investment zone with fewer planning regulations: “Reductions in environmental protection, which appear to be a condition, are incompatible with our net zero carbon aspirations and our commitment to protect & enhance the environment.”
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Cyclists around Oxford Brookes have been issued with temporary lights and hi-vis rucksack covers in a joint operation by
@TVP_Oxford
and
@OxonFireRescue
. The lights were given as an alternative to a £30 on-the-spot fine.
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Alison Hill,
@cycloxoxford
: “Four young women cycling have died in collisions in Oxford. HGVs were the cause of all these deaths – why are you allowing them a free pass? The exemptions being proposed are too generous and the roads will not feel any safer.”
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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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@EmilyKerr36
“For the same cost, we could install safe cycle routes to Culham, put in the entire Oxfordshire Strategic Active Travel Network, and still have change for the Wantage railway station. This road is in direct contravention of your transport plan.” Round of applause from attendees.
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The University of Oxford is to vote on making all its peer-reviewed research “open access” – meaning anyone can read it without paying the high fees demanded by journal publishers. Congregation will vote on 11 June on a proposal to release research under Creative Commons terms.
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Grab yourself a cuppa - a long read in which we discuss the bizarre LTN motion at Oxford City Council tonight, as a proxy for all LTNs, nationwide. Also Radiohead, Rishi Sunak, and unicorns.
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Oxford’s traffic filters have been approved by
@OxfordshireCC
cabinet, to take effect in January 2024. Our full thread covering the cabinet meeting:
Good morning! It’s
@OxfordshireCC
’s extraordinary cabinet meeting to consider the traffic filters/bus gates and the Central Oxfordshire Traffic Plan. There are some 50 people lined up to speak before the cabinet makes its decision.
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City cllr Anna Railton
@rail_guns
(Lab, Hinksey Park): “The status quo is broken. The residents of my ward are sick of people driving past a Park+Ride and making the bus service they rely on slow and unreliable. We need to build an Oxford that works for everybody, old and young.”
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The chair of Oxford’s new anti-LTN party posted a series of tweets which cast doubt on climate change, suggested ivermectin as a way to “beat Covid”, and claimed “there is a push to centralised dystopian control”.
Full report:
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“Do I give more weight to a parent whose child was almost hit by a car than to ten drivers who want to save a few seconds? Yes, I do. You have no plan to tackle congestion, no plan for public transport. This is of a piece with other Tory initiatives.”
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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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New wooden bollards are being installed to enforce Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, to replace the previous plastic bollards that were repeatedly vandalised. These photos show the new bollards on Crescent Road and Beauchamp Lane.
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Market Street, by the Covered Market, has now reopened as a “pedestrian and cycle zone” following resurfacing works. Access is permitted for taxis/private hire and loading in marked bays.
(Pictures taken yesterday after the shops had closed.)
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@AndrewGant3
🚨 Decision 🚨
@OxfordshireCC
’s Cabinet votes to make East Oxford’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods permanent, with ANPR replacing bollards at three locations to allow emergency services and taxis through.
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Should the free car park at
@OxfordshireCC
County Hall be closed? North Hinksey’s LibDem councillor Judy Roberts says “we lead by example… having a free car park in front of County Hall is an embarrassing relic that lies in stark contradiction to our published goals”.
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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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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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Government signs on the dotted line for Oxfordshire’s £12.7m bus grant. The funding will pay for an under-19 discount (with a flat fare of £1 in Oxford city), rural route subsidies, traffic filters/bus gates, and other bus priority measures
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City councillor Louise Upton (Lab, Walton Manor): “When congestion is so bad, something drastic needs to be done. The bus network is becoming unviable. 30% of Oxford households don’t own a car. 1 in 17 deaths are linked to air pollution.”
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Pedal & Post, Oxford’s cargo bike company, is launching a £500,000 crowdfunding initiative. The share offer will fund expansion in Oxford and a 2024 launch in Reading. It currently employs 23 people and moves 1,000 parcels across the city every day.
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Thames Valley Police report the first successful prosecution for vandalism to Oxford’s LTN bollards, saying this demonstrates their willingness to take action against criminal damage to the boards
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🚨Conservatives lose Cherwell, their last Oxon district🚨
With results still coming in, Labour have gained Banbury Cross, Banbury Hardwick, and Banbury Calthorpe; Greens gain Bicester E; LibDems gain Adderbury+Bloxham, and Bicester N.
If no more change hands:
🔶9 💚3 🌹12 🔵19
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Oxford is getting its first cycle hangars. The Cyclehoop units will be installed in Jericho this week on Cranham Street, Great Clarendon Street, and Nelson Street. Renting a space will cost £55 for 12 months.
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The UK high street may be in trouble but Oxford's Cowley Road is outperforming it, according to analysis from
@CoHSATOxon
, with a 5% vacancy rate vs the national average of 11.5%
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Cowley Road has bucked the nationwide trend for store closures, according to new research by
@CoHSATOxon
. Between 2018 and 2023, empty/vacant shops fell from 12 to 11, while the national rate rose from 11.5% to 13.9%. On average, 16 shops close and 16 open on the road each year.
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Residents of Morrell Avenue are calling for their road to become a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. The residents’ association says 70% of current traffic is using it as a “rat run”. They want a filter/bus gate by Union Street, with traffic being sent via Gipsy Lane instead.
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Cllr
@EmilyKerr36
(of Oxford City Council) very punchy: “This road was conceived nearly a decade ago when <3% of people worked from home. E-bikes were a nascent industry. Traffic forecasts were from 2015/2018. The world has changed since then. People want good public transport.”
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A long-delayed project to design cycle routes into Oxford from nearby towns and villages is finally to get underway.
@OxfordCity
has appointed consultants
@PhilJonesAssoc
, supported by
@Sustrans
, to develop route designs for a set of priority routes.
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East Oxford residents have been sending messages of solidarity in the face of threatened far-right protests this evening. A counter-demonstration organised by Stand Up To Racism will gather on Manzil Way at 6pm. We understand some shops and premises have closed early.
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Cllr
@EmilyKerr36
(Green, St Mary’s): “People rely on public transport and the poorest rely on it most. Advance the ZEZ expansion, and put better traffic monitoring in place. Adopt this resolution which is essential to get the buses moving, and make our city fairer.”
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We’ve hit 2,000 followers for our blend of Oxfordshire politics, planning, analysis, transport, city retail and the occasional cat adoption. Thank you all for coming along with us!
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Chiltern Railways has lodged formal plans to run 35 trains a day each way between Oxford and Milton Keynes, half-hourly through the day. Expected to start in spring 2025, trains will call at Bicester Village, the new Winslow station, and Bletchley (where a few will terminate).
East West Rail Winslow station Construction bit of a wet day
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Oxford city council is planning to invest £54,980 to install bike racks in 6 locations in the city centre and East Oxford. The 75 stands are Sheffield 'Bilton' stands with a mid rail, that will hold up to 150 bikes. 1/3
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Oxford University is to remove Rupert Murdoch’s name from the professorship he endowed, the “Rupert Murdoch Professorship of Language and Communication”. It says the current title is preventing it from “attracting the widest range of candidates”.
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Oxford’s original bus gates are 25 years old tonight. The “Oxford Transport Strategy” came into effect at 12am on 1 June 1999, closing city centre roads to cars and pedestrianising Cornmarket altogether.
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The pedestrian route under Botley Road railway bridge is currently blocked by a BMW whose driver attempted to drive along the path.
Still there this morning. Trains running so 'just' affecting the Botley Road pedestrian tunnel.
Looks like it was the lamppost that finally stopped them - could it be an honorary bollard
@WorldBollard
?
#Oxford
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A criminal investigation is underway into Thames Water’s sewage discharge at Witney treatment works. The disclosure was made in a Commons debate secured yesterday by Oxford West & Abingdon MP
@LaylaMoran
on Thames Water’s performance in Oxfordshire.
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Could Oxford be the first city outside London to ban pavement parking? An Oxford Clarion special report finds that in many parts of the city, it’s already outlawed – but most road users are unaware.
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@OxfordshireCC
Zuhura Plummer is next and says “Most of all I want to say thank you. So many kids are learning to cycle now,” praising OCC for its “bravery”. Now: Patrick Davey from Walton Manor asks for an additional filter for north Walton Street to prevent traffic displacement.
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Lady Angiolini is principal of St Hugh’s and led the inquiry into Sarah Everard’s murder. Imran Khan is former PM of Pakistan, currently jailed on corruption charges. Hague is a former Conservative leader, while Mandelson was a key figure in the New Labour governments.
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Numberplate recognition will be used to enforce the banned turn at The Plain from Cowley Rd into Iffley Rd, in another decision taken at this morning’s
@OxfordshireCC
meeting.
@andrewgant3
called the Plain “the single most important and difficult place for Oxfordshire traffic”.
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The Botley Road rail bridge will not reopen this autumn as expected. Network Rail say work is behind schedule. Local MP
@LaylaMoran
called the situation “utterly shambolic” and is calling on the Department for Transport to compensate businesses and residents.
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Four Oxford primary schools, and one in Didcot, are being proposed for new ‘School Street’ schemes. The immediate approach roads would be closed to most motor vehicles at pick-up and drop-off times, with the aim of improving safety for children walking or using scooters or bikes.
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Could Oxfordshire get its first cycle-friendly roundabout? The new Witney cycling and walking plan, just out for consultation, suggests a Dutch-style roundabout at Fiveways with cycle tracks around the perimeter.
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Number plate recognition cameras could be installed at the Plain to prevent traffic making the banned left turn from Cowley Road into Iffley Road.
@OxfordshireCC
says motorists making the turn are a hazard for “vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and particularly cyclists”.
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Sushila Dhall has been announced as the Green Party’s candidate for Oxford East at the next general election. Sushila cofounded the Oxford Pedestrians Association
@OxfdPedestrians
more than 25 years ago and is a former city and county councillor.
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Jeremy Corbyn is addressing a rally by the Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Broad Street. Hundreds marched through the city with chants calling for an immediate ceasefire.
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The Oxford–Didcot railway line is likely to be closed for up to three weeks due to the failure of Nuneham Viaduct over the Thames. The speed limit was reduced to 20mph in January, 5mph last week, then closed entirely today, with the line said to be “sinking” into the ground.
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Traffic lights are to be trialled at the Plain roundabout in early February. Temporary lights will hold back traffic from Iffley Road and Magdalen Bridge so that buses and other traffic from St Clements have space to enter. The trial is planned to run at 3pm-7pm from 5th–9th Feb.
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It’s decision day for the Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods at
@OxfordshireCC
. In an act of some irony, chair
@lizleffman
has asked everyone on the Teams meeting to turn their microphones off because “I can hear some traffic noise”…
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@OxfordshireCC
’s Cabinet has signed off a £4m programme of works to move closer to ‘Vision Zero’, eliminating deaths and serious injuries on the county’s roads. £1.6m will be spent on the junctions with the worst incident records, which could include the Plain in Oxford.
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Abingdon’s Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan has been approved at this morning’s
@OxfordshireCC
meeting. Local councillor
@LeyNathan
, Oxfordshire group
@CoHSATOxon
and national cycling organisation
@Sustrans
strongly spoke in support.
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