Don’t fret! If you live in Oxfordshire, you will barely notice the bus gates. You’ll need to apply for a permit, but once you have this, you’re covered to travel as you always have done. If you don’t live in Oxfordshire, you’ll need to either use a different ring road Read more…
If you are interested in the future of traffic in Oxford, and how that impacts our everyday lives, there are some important council consultations now open, for the East Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, and the Core Oxford Travel Plan. Please consider completing these online surveys by visiting this handy consultation Read more…
Implemented in spring 2021, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Temple Cowley, Church Cowley and Florence Park cover most of Cowley. The aim of the scheme is to make streets safer, easier and more pleasant to walk, cycle or reach the bus stop for short local trips. Access to residential roads is Read more…
LTNs create Active Travel routes. Active Travel Routes allow modal shift, primarily by allowing schoolchildren to cycle and walk to school, and also after-school activities. Active Travel routes need to be truly low-traffic for them to drive modal shift. Medium-traffic routes are just not good enough to get people to Read more…
One of the main criticisms of the Church Cowley LTN is that the Littlemore Road traffic filter has ‘cut-off’ Littlemore residents from Cowley, specifically the Templars Square and John Allen shopping areas. This article investigates why the Littlemore Road filter is crucial to creating a key Active Travel corridor for Read more…
With on-going vandalism of new traffic measures, and regular contravention of the rules of the road, is it any wonder we need LTNs? Driving entitlement has become plain ridiculous. Over the past decade policing and local authority cuts have reduced staffing numbers, such that there is very little enforcement of Read more…
Dancin’ Oxford is holding its FREE Summer Festival in Florence Park on Saturday 3 July featuring three professional and very different dance companies, several taster zumba classes and a live DJ. Bring a picnic and make a day of it. The three thrilling professional companies are James Wilton Dance, on Read more…
Residents have waited over three months for the completion of their LTNs in Church Cowley and Florence Park. LTN plans approved by Oxfordshire County Council on January 21 call for ANPR camera enforcement of point-closures on Cornwallis Road and Bartholomew Road. It’s not just residents of these neighbourhoods who are Read more…
“Even when there were roadworks or accidents, there were no real traffic jams because everyone could just flow through the side roads to keep everything moving.” “If the LTNs were removed there wouldn’t be the severe congestion we have seen in the last few weeks” “The LTNs are causing congestion Read more…
As part of the creation of three Cowley Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, large planters have been installed as traffic filters allowing people cycling and walking to pass through and restricting private cars. These have been planted up with lavender plants by Oxfordshire County Council. There are now 30 mini “lavender fields” Read more…