Absolutely unreal… they call us conspiracy theorists for saying east Oxford is being treated differently to North but when faced with two 30 minute closures once a fortnight suddenly Andrew Gant thinks this is a bad thing. This is the man that closed the east of the city 24/7

Braggpuss They essentially think the public is too stupid to understand what the data is saying. Even though they publish exactly the same data, in aggrogate form, a few months later.

OXFORD COUNCILS DINGED BY REGULATOR FOR REFUSING TO RELEASE POLLUTION DATA

Oxford City Council has become the latest authority in Oxfordshire to be accused of suppressing data, after the ICO deemed it must release key pollution data used to justify the ZEZ.

We've heard the Westminster University active travel crew were interviewing cyclists (pedestrians?) on Bullingdon Road / James Street today, asking about LTNs.

A) the schools are out.
B) it's Eid.
C) local folks who uses their car for work will, erm, be away.

Great sampling!

Calling on everyone to recognise this for what it is - it is an attempt to circumvent a wider consultation by giving additional weight to a panel. This is not an attempt to ‘empower’ it is attempt to produce a positive result, one which the DfT cannot influence for removal.

17 Independent candidates snapping at the heels of the mainstream parties at 2 May elections. These Independents & the IOA.

Mohammed Azad - Temple Cowley
Pete West - Headington
Michael Evans - Blackbird Leys
Suzette - McLean Blackbird Leys
Emily Scaysbrook - Holywell

It might not be a shop front sized banner, but I have a number of these posters to drop off today.
Huge thanks to our leaflet & poster designer- doing a great job!

Bus gates for Oxford (where Tim doesn't stand for election), but not in Wheatley (where he does).

Is anyone surprised? At all?

I'm still standing Jane Alaszewski Dr Barbara Brayshay Brendan Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 Clair Shimano Steve Visit Camberwell #AnalyseTrafficOrigin With #ANPR Ediz John Stewart Rosamund Adoo-KD CBE FBSA Runnymede Trust Ipsos DfT stats Mark Harper Social Environmental Justice Channel 4 Dispatches Victoria Derbyshire The Times and The Sunday Times Ann Jones The UK LTN Résistance Cowley LTN’s #OneOX4 NO to Haringey LTNs Carers & Keyworkers against #LTNS Anti LTN Task Force Katharina Herrmann Sir Michael Marmot Impact on Urban Health Clean Air Fund EDF Global Clean Air Mothers’ 4 Clean Air Croxted Clean Air too Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels Matt Albrow Michele Ragusa The Fox ◼ boundsandbowesvoice Jeff Smith on Air Pollution (BreatheLife2030.org) Rachael Venables Nick Ferrari Margaret Brady Karen Sainsbury 💚 BSc(Hons) MA Claire Fox Clean Air For All Dulwich Mike Hakata I think LTN activists are terrified the general public realise they've been conned. That worsening traffic danger and air pollution exposure for adults & children already most at risk was not a covid response or an air pollution solution or climate action..
#LTNscandal #LTNgate

OCC would love to CPZ the entire of East Oxford. It gives control and money. You can extend the double yellow lines to reduce parking - as we’re seeing already - and/or increase fees…perhaps making it weight based, which would match car parking proposal & London schemes.

He's not going to have many shops to choose from across East Oxford with those values - especially small independent shops.

We didn't spot a single shop promoting mainstream parties this morning. Evert single one that have a poster was only promoting independents.

Funny that.

This so-called explainer guide to Oxford's traffic filters scheme (coming in October) neatly illustrates why Oxfordshire County Council needs to have its transport strategy policy powers taken off it.

The council has massively overreached itself, and misused the powers granted to it.

I've now read all 79 pages of the govt's LTN review. There is plenty I could say about it but for now I thought I'd focus on unpicking the survey evidence that suggests LTNs are more popular than not. My analysis has found this conclusion to be a very misleading:

Most of us in Cowley Road still take cash in our businesses and have no plans to change that. With the loss of so many banks, many of us now use a Post Office to pay it in to our accounts. The loss of the Post Office in Cowley Centre will be devastating. change.org/p/save-post-of…

By this methodology, the views of Littlemore residents are completely irrelevant to the future of the Church Cowley LTN.

Or the views of Morrell Avenue residents to the future of the Divinity Road LTN.

If you're outside the boundary of the LTN, your views don't matter.

🤦🤷‍♂️🙇

The new LTN guidance is out.

Oxford's LTN evaluation approach would score poorly. The council failed to install pollution monitors along much of Iffley Road, and flat out refused to consider blue badge LTN access. It disregarded clear evidence of slowed traffic on main roads.

Danny Yee has the ear of Oxfordshire County Council, and thinks it's fine to charge workers £20 per day to drive into Oxford.

If you can't afford to live in Oxfodf because of the expensive housing, let's also clobber you with an extra bill of up to £5k per year to drive to work.

A quick reminder that, over a several years, Oxfordshire County Council never bothered to evaluate the air quality in central Oxford, to determine whether there was any need to spend millions of pounds developing a zero emmision zone.

So we did: air quality is pretty good.

Michele Ragusa Little Ninja UK Save Our Buses55 (SOB) Jeff Smith on Air Pollution (BreatheLife2030.org) Visit Camberwell #AnalyseTrafficOrigin With #ANPR Clair Shimano Steve Ann Jones Ediz The Fox ◼ Dr Kat Alcock Jane Alaszewski Katharina Herrmann Lorna Blane Evan Driscoll Cowley LTN’s #OneOX4 Croxted Clean Air too Alex Xara Simon Calvert Rebekah Kelly And nearly all of them used data from a source which has a dangerous flaw: the more congestion there is the more traffic they under count.

I explain it here m.youtube.com/watch?v=sD-_Eb…

Great support for leafleting in Florence Park today. Thanks to all involved! 😊

Still time for some door knocking this afternoon….😅