Reconnecting Oxford

We want a better future for Oxford - for residents, visitors, and businesses. We support proposals that are rooted in evidence and backed by communities.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

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

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

@ediz1975 @cristo_radio You can also be used as a test case for evaluating what happens to traffic and congestion when long-standing LTNs are removed.

Rachel Aldred and Co will surely be on the case....

🤣

[Ediz @ediz1975]

https://t.co/yp65KAkoNp

Enfield council have started the process to remove LTNs and abolish future LTNs. Here @PGCommunity who personally gained from relocating increased harm upon children like mine morning the fact that the conservatives share of votes did not give them a mandate to do so.

As they told us consultations are not referendums. Forcing children and families to suffer horrible consequences of LTNs so groups like this can enjoy a quite road at the expense of children outside them.

[MMC @markchristie]

Every week, more controls, more restrictions, more opportunities to fine from Oxfordshire County Council.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

@peterjbdk5680 @MarkB66089331 This is heavy traffic.

The traffic isn't rat running down Elms Avenue, despite passing the entrance to the road.

How many videos of traffic not rat running down Elms Avenue during rush hour would you like to see?

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Is Elms Drive in Marston "largely rural in character" and therefore eligible to become a quiet lane under the statutory definition of the term?

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Is Elms Drive in Marston "largely rural in character" and therefore eligible to become a quiet lane under the statutory definition of the term?

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

It's the tail end of the hospital shift change rush hour on Marsh Lane in Oxford.

Whar percentage of drivers are extending their journey to work by taking a side road cut through via Elms Drive, that leads them away from their destination (the hospital)?

Approximately, zero?

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

@BagpussOnParole @MatthewDandrid8 @JerichoConnect And yet her husband was the one who led the Oxford University awkward squad about not temporarily opening up University Parks to cycling when the Marston Cycle Path was out of action.

The official uni line was that it was safer to cycle via the Plain than down a quiet path...

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

OCC want to trial quiet lanes on roads that are largely rural in character.

Like this one, in suburban Marston, which green councillor Emily Kerr, thinks would a good fit.

Road closures would be part of OCCs scheme. Which would be an expansive interpretation of what's allowed.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

@JerichoConnect @Smith227Steve The road is already signed as a no-though road and, as the video shows, drivers were not using it as a cut-though this morning during rush hour, despite all the traffic on Marsh Lane.

The proposal has literally no purpose, other than to cause drivers in the area even more aggro.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Charlie Hicks was elected (once) during lockdown. He backed restrictions in his own patch, ignoring residents' wishes. When he came up for election in a nearby ward, he was rejected by the electorate in favour of an anti-LTN candidate.

Tim doesn't stand for election in Oxford.

[Roj Blake @Rojblake1]

Now Tim Bearder here is leading the county council. Very worrying when you can see the glee here at installing cameras and fining us. Acts like we should love bus gates too.. @ReconnectingOx @eastoxbusiness @OBAG_Oxford @Ind_Ox_Alliance @JerichoConnect @YewneekPhoto @MaCgroupUK

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

@stevegeddes1976 Also Iffley Road, which provide traffic filter free access to Magdalen College School.

You couldn't have designed a more perfect scheme for hindering the riff raff from driving around their own city, while ensuring restriction-free access to out-of-town private schools parents.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Your periodic reminder that OCC's congestion charge and traffic filters schemes don't place a single new restriction on out-of-town parents dropping their kids off at North Oxford's numerous private schools.

Funnily enough, traffic and congestion hasn't dropped around here.

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

The new leader of Oxfordshire County Council does not appear to be a massive fan of certain media outlets.

Which ones might he have in mind?

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Behold, the new leader of Oxfordshire County Council.

He outlines his transport vision at minute 5.

Spoiler alert, it involves a hurt finger.

https://t.co/rRS4FaVrap

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Fair.

To which add:

Thousands of consultees he ignored.

Everyone whose buses were cancelled following the introduction of the LTNs.

Everyone suffering from displaced traffic he claimed had evaporated - especially medics working on 12 hours shifts whose commute he made longer.

[Save East Oxford Businesses @eastoxbusiness]

Andrew Gant says he got horrid online abuse.

Nothing compared to the pain he forced on east oxford business owners who had to shut their businesses bcoz of what he did to us

Dreams crushed, income lost, debts to pay. he f***ks off with no consequences
https://t.co/zYbhQaUlmw

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Our new Oxfordshire transport overload, making one of those classic Tim-isms that got him booted off the LTN decision.

A bit like the time he 'fessed up that a reason. for implementing the congestion charge was the liability the council (voluntarily) owed to the bus companies.

[Roj Blake @Rojblake1]

@KakocratWatchUK @LibDemsOxon @_LiamWalker_ @ReconnectingOx @YewneekPhoto @MaCgroupUK @markchristie @JerichoConnect @eastoxbusiness Things are clearly extremely desperate if @LibDemsOxon goons have anointed him as their new fuhrer. I've not forgotten the wooden and insulting videos he made with Charlie Hicks:

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Here's some of Gant's worst bits..

[Roj Blake @Rojblake1]

A little summary of the mayhem Gant inflicted in his time as a county councillor...@ReconnectingOx @eastoxbusiness @OBAG_Oxford @KakocratWatchUK @JerichoConnect @_LiamWalker_ @BagpussOnParole @MatthewDandrid8 @Ind_Ox_Alliance @Sajjm786Malik @MaCgroupUK @ABD_South @OxonTories

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

There are an *awful lot* of comments on social media (and in numerous WhatsApp groups) celebrating Gants departure.

The 20-or so activists he has leant on to help him knacker chucks of Oxford's road network are being shown up for the tiny minority they are.

[BBC Oxfordshire @BBCOxford]

Congestion charge roads boss steps down from cabinet https://t.co/xb10llobko

[Reconnecting Oxford @ReconnectingOx]

Gant gone.

Good.

New memes please!

[Cllr Liam Walker @_LiamWalker_]

Statement on Lib Dem cabinet member for highways, Cllr Andrew Gant, who has quit the cabinet at Oxfordshire County Council 👇