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That might help a bit with keeping them moving, but given how many people Magdalen Bridge moves by bus I'm not sure VLR-style trams are going to provide enough capacity.

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The Conservatives want more road injuries and slower public transport.

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The problem is that the Coventry VL trams carry fewer people than a bus... Need capacity.

… in order to unlock much larger amounts of external funding in the future.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of the Greenways are going to be funded by developer contributions, anyway. Or central government funding to unlock housing sites. Maybe some Active Travel England grants. So this is the county spending a tiny amount now in planning…

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... if it proves impossible to put in routes that are usable by anyone at all times of day - perhaps because ecological concerns prevent lighting - that must not be used as an excuse to block routes usable in the daytime.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At the moment there is no way for my daughter to cycle from Oxford to any of the settlements that would be served by the Greenways (except perhaps Abingdon). So they would provide her with a hugely expanded opportunities. And yes, routes usable 24 hours would be better, but....

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Oxfordshire Liveable Streets @oxlivstreets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1/ 70% of primary school kids killed or seriously injured on Britain's roads are hurt within 500m of their own school, according to DfT figures for 2025. ‼️ What this means is, the most dangerous part of a child's day is the journey to school ‼️ www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is gorgeous! And it even comes with cycle parking. Can grab some food from either Cowley Rd or the Magdalen Rd Village shops and sit here and chat to passers-by.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plans have been unveiled for a network of cycle routes linking nearby towns and villages to Oxford, backed by county and city councils – and unusually, the University of Oxford. The Oxford Greenways would connect 200,000 residents to the city on traffic-free paths. oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-green...

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Oxford Greenways: a cure for congestion?

How far would you be prepared to cycle to work? Research suggests that, for most people, 2 to 5 miles is the sweet spot. That's 10 to 30 minutes each way. Enough for health benefits, but not too tiri...

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And an expanded ZEZ would help address demand, too.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One assumes prices would rise with the fall in supply!

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a short-term solution, but at some point Nuffield college will build on the Worcester St car park site. It’s also likely that the railway car park will be much smaller when Network Rail builds on Becket St.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The OM's tendentious, often verging on mendacious, treatment of transport topics is the primary reason anyone with a clue now gets their news from the Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social instead.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Needs a bit of infrastructure to safely do the dogleg between Shepherds Pit and Pound Lane. And something - at least 20mph limits- on the Bayswater Rd link at the other end. I’d probably do this now myself, but not with kids.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is largely done by the city council www.oxford.gov.uk/air-quality

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And the traffic filters should be better at deterring that through traffic than the congestion charge was... but we will find out soon.

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Is this any worse than Botley Rd was in 2019? I remember it being totally clogged up then. And it should be possible to serve Westgate + Worcester St car parks ok if that were all the traffic - the problem is the through traffic on top of that.

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Cyclox has commissioned a design for the Cutteslowe roundabout from a highways engineer with an active travel background.

Yes, the problem with trip subsidies is that it’s either one-off or a standing hit to revenue. But the cc income could have funded a junction rebuild every year (if a third of it were allocated to that)…

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Social mobility is very important for children, but can’t let them have physical mobility because thst might impinge on my chauffeured car trips “

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How much car parking is there in Victoria North? This is always the first thing I want to know about a development…

Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Should be no through routes for motor traffic inside the ring road. Hopefully Filip Wateeouw’s presentation on Ghent yesterday has inspired people.

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was late to the rural workshop so am in the same bus seminar.

Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Botley Rd cycling infrastructure bsky.app/profile/dann...

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, all those cycle “tracks” created by just painting a white line down the middle of the footway are crap. Cycle tracks and footways are very different kinds of things!

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Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also, NR had money, the county had no budget for ancillary works around the core NR project.

Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And given the length of the closure, there should have been time to get better infrastructure around the underpass in.

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The routes under the bridge really are a huge improvement. I reckon they double the fraction of the population prepared to cycle that section of the route.

If we get a rebuild of Frideswide Square, for example - which we will likely do with the station and Becket St redevelopment - that will be an opportunity to fix the provision there.

Cycling under the bridge was the worst bit of the route before, and certainly the bit that seemed least improvable. There are still some pinch points - the Thames Bridge for example - but there are also real opportunities for improvement.

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All these problems notwithstanding, overall this is a huge improvement, because the bottleneck under the bridge was previously the worst part of the route and seemed intractable. We can now work on improving the connectivity on either side, which is not going to need £100 million.

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And _everyone_ cycling this route east-to-west or west-to-east would follow the same path, because it would be clearly better than any alternative. That might require taking some space / time from motor traffic and/or pedestrians, but it would also drastically reduce conflicts with those modes.

If this were the Netherlands, there would be clear cycle tracks - or lanes, or something - on either side of Botley Rd, connecting to the underpass and then to cycle tracks on either side of Frideswide Square.

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So again, people cycling can't see clearly where they are supposed to go, and people walking and driving have to deal with people cycling pretty much everywhere.

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But the route getting to this point isn't clearly marked and many people were entering the carriageway earlier, at Mill Rd or at the pedestrian crossing.

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And, finally, leaving the underpass to get onto Botley Rd, there is actually some support for transiting from the cycle path / shared path onto the carriageway.

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It's hardly surprising that so many people are staying on carriageway here, given they then face only two transitions - a possible stop for the pedestrian signal crossing, and a possible slow down for the fake speed hump crossing at the eastern end.

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(If this were the Netherlands, this would be a clearly continuous cycle track, distinctly coloured to make its continuity and priority quite clear.)

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All up, anyone cycling on the "cycle path" here will face nine (9!) transitions getting from the carriageway on Botley Rd to the carriageway on Frideswide Square. Shared space, cycle path, side-street crossing, pedestrian crossing, etc.

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And then cross Cripley Rd at one of those crossings where it's not clear who has priority. (Someone has suggested closing Cripley Rd to motor traffic, which might free up eough room for a zebra crossing, with a proper cycle bypass, to replace the signal crossing.)

Then you have to dodge around some poles and utility cabinets, and signal poles, and people waiting to cross the road.

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Cycling from the west and trying to get onto the underpass, you have to exit (without any signs or support) at the Abbey Rd junction, in dogleg movement that no one is going to expect, bumping up a kerb on the way.

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In any event, the options coming from the underpass onto Frideswide Square involve either a dangerous entry onto the carriageway, across a pedestrian route onto the middle of a junction that wasn't designed for this, or using a shared path around a constrained corner with poor visibility.

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I've written a long thread about this now, having spend a couple of hours on site bsky.app/profile/dann...