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Local authorities have become drunk on power, using so-called Experimental (because they aren't) Traffic Regulation Orders to force through mass road closures - with almost no checks or balances to reign them in.
We're calling on the @transportgovuk to bin them.
#AbolishETROs
The experiment is now running. Oxford's state schools, used mainly by the city's residents, aren't broken up. Oxford's private schools, which can have gigantic catchment areas, are starting to go on half term.
So let's see what happens over this week, especially from Wednesday.
This is the congestion situation today compared with last Monday, at the exact same time.
The Magdalen College School effect on Iffley Road is clear. But, with some north Oxford schools still "in", we need to monitor how congestion in this area unfolds.
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Oxford has closed all but one road to its main shopping centre. And this is the main pedestrian entrance to the same. The city needs a completely different approach to visitors if it wants to thrive again.
Someone's going to have to recuse himself from the traffic filters decision if he carries on like this...
gareth eppes the councillor in charge of the traffic filters likes a facebook post which says
" serves her right for driving when theres tons of buses from abingdon
no mate they wdnt have got stuck in the car parkif you hadnt put blocks in the road
facebook.com/photo?fbid=1720…
There are some OCC councillors, and officers, who will see this as a win. Safe in their taxpayer-funded jobs, they actively dislike visitors to Oxford, and will be happy if they "go elsewhere".
They'll not care that visitors help keep Oxford's retail sector afloat for locals.
Family 'stranded' in Westgate for hours blame traffic filters ift.tt/EfdpU98
It's great to see how Oxford's traffic filters scheme has comprehensively freed up access to the city's hospitals. 🧐
P.s. isn't the traffic filter signage factually wrong for most of the day? Cars can use MFR unhindered, whenever the filters aren't operating. – at Oxford, England
If Green party Oxford City Councillor / chair of Oxford Pedestrians Association Sushila Dhall ever needed a stunt double, then maybe she should ask the person who appears in this OCC promo video, extolling the benefits of OCC politics. The resemblance is uncanny -even the accent!
As the BBC reports on people being fined due to OCCs emept congestion charge to traffic filters migration, OCCs social media feeds studiously ignore the problem.
Instead, they continue to pump PR guff like this...
And yes, we know...
Drivers wrongly fined for congestion charge breaches bbc.in/4hUUQlL
Next week, we get to re-run / validate our previous experiment, which examined the effects of private (not state) schools on Oxford's weekday traffic hotspots of Banbury / Woodstock Road and Iffley Road.
Private schools tend to break up a few days earlier than state schools.
The shit show continues...
Traffic filters scheme sees city centre gridlock bbc.in/3TSmQ1E
New "Remove Oxford’s Traffic Filters and Relax LTN (ANPR) Access" petition by indie Oxfordshire / Oxford councillors, David Henwood.
ipetitions.com/p/remove-traf…
Oxfordshire County has even screewed up side roads on industrial estate around Botley Road with its madcap traffic filters - on a week day afternoon.
Are visitors to stone masons and cash and carries expected to lug away their purchases on back packs and bikes?
Apparently so.
Despite umpteen reports of Oxfordshire residents recieving PCN fines for passing a traffic filter - despite having a valid permit - OCCs' social media channels conspicously give:
A) no hint that anything's gone wrong.
B) no hint of an apology.
C) no instructions on what to do.
Because city-wide gridlock over multiple days, made much worse by OCC schemes, raises no health concerns?
Epps: your former job is community engagement. You're fully aware of the harm you are causing, and the bad practices you employer embraces.
You should feel dirty every day.
Transport boss fears 'child could be killed' amid Oxford traffic row ift.tt/KTdgBab
Oxford's social media channels continue to hum with complaints about folks with migrated congestion charge permits being fined for breaching the traffic filters rules, on 27 September in particular.
When will OCC acknowledge the cock up?
When will OCC tell everyone what to do?
Having spectacularly misunderstood / been indifferent to the actual causes of traffic and congestion, it's not surprise that OCC's traffic filters are proving just as ineffective as the congestion charge.
Except as a cash register, natch. OCC are even fining permit holders.
Going well then.
#Oxford #BlackbirdLeys Due to congestion around the Rail Station causing severe delays, the 1 service will terminate & begin at Speedwell Street, unable to service Westgate, Park End Street or Rail Station bus stops in either direction until the congestion has eased later today
