All welcome at OxPA's annual social this Tuesday! Friends' Meeting House, St Giles', Oxford, from 7 p.m.: www.oxpa.org.uk/meeting/2026...

Standard Sunday fare on Cowley Road. Dropped curb completely blocked and us pedestrians forced mostly into road @badlyparkedox.bsky.social

Roads outside schools, residential streets, and the city centre thoroughfare of St Giles all feature in Oxford’s ten worst roads for speeding. We take a look at the data: oxfordclarion.uk/the-oxford-r...

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Hello #Oxfordshire 👋 We’re Oxfordshire Liveable Streets and we’re pretty new on Bluesky. We’d love to find more local people, groups and orgs who care about making everyday life in our towns and villages healthier, fairer, safer, greener,and more connected.. and we need your help 👇🏽

“Pavements are for pedestrians, not vehicles,” says Oxfordshire County Council’s Cllr Andrew Gant as the Government introduces new rules on pavement parking where councils will be allowed to introduce and enforce a ban: “We welcome the opportunity to apply for the powers to enforce this.”

Sad news from RoadPeace today.

Oxfordshire's Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (COHSAT) has welcomed the Government's new Road Safety Strategy, saying that in Oxfordshire 270 people are killed or seriously injured on the roads every year. It questions if the plans are bold enough to achieve its targets.

2020 pavement parking consultation: government response just dropped at last. www.gov.uk/government/c...

The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads. livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment

As we previously reported, campaigners are trying to establish permanent rights of way on these paths. Anyone with information is asked to visit linktr.ee/rightsofway

Electric Road right of way update: Campaigners are now looking for people aged 55+ who used the Bulstake Path or the Electric Road before 2000, (ideally before 1980), even if they no longer live in Oxford, in order to establish evidence of regular use of the paths for at least 20 years before 2000.

Interview with Oxfordshire’s active travel champion @emilykerr36.bsky.social www.cyclox.org/index.php/20...

Welcome Oxfordshire Liveable Streets to Bluesky! Follow OLS at @oxlivstreets.bsky.social - and follow our ‘starter pack’ of walking and wheeling organisations: go.bsky.app/DoGqEs

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...

The towpath between Port Meadow and Botley Road is flooded, and closed say Oxford City Council, warning other areas of the towpath in the city may also start to flood over the next few days. Last winter, two people drowned in the city in separate incidents after entering flooded towpaths.

Oxfordshire has been given a “level 3” rating for cycling and walking schemes by the Government, up from level 2 last year. The improved rating means it will get more central funding for infrastructure improvements, with £20.2m earmarked for the county until 2030.

Footfall in the city centre was up 22% year-on-year, and 30% at the Covered Market, though the trend in recent years has been upwards anyway. Cowley centre (37%) and Botley Road (47%) saw the biggest rises. Park & Ride usage increased sharply at Redbridge, which is now 85% full on Saturdays.

Buses on Oxford’s main arterial roads are 12% faster in the morning rush hour, following the introduction of the congestion charge, than this time last year. Oxfordshire County Council has released data from the first month of the charge, which suggests traffic has fallen but footfall is holding up.

Not sure what the single yellow line means? How about DON'T PARK ON THE PAVEMENT ... 🤦‍♀️ (Church Cowley Road, Oxford OX4) #AntisocialParking #PavementParking #PavementsAreForPeople

'Read the stories of Oxfordshire residents who make walking or wheeling a part of their everyday lives.' www.oxfordtraveloptions.co.uk/local-voices... These are lovely! There are many more everyday stories about getting around Oxford by bus, bike, and train, too.

NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨An unhappy fifth birthday. Five years and four prime ministers since the pavement parking consultation ended, and still no action. What will it take to reclaim pavements? shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

The footway parking ban in England consultation closed 5 years ago tomorrow. The Tories' inaction is now Labour's inaction. www.gov.uk/government/c...

'Incredibly, the Department for Transport consulted on banning pavement parking a full five years ago' OxPA chair Sushila Dhall's letter in today's Oxford Mail

Spot the obstacles on the pavement. #badlyparkedcars #antisocialparking #banpavementparking #pavementsareforpeople Windmill Road @headingtonnews.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social @oxfordpedestrians.bsky.social

In a statement, Cyclox, CoHSAT, and Oxfordshire Liveable Streets call for an expansion of the scheme to serve every neighbourhood in the city and an expansion of dedicated, on-road parking infrastructure, along with service providers cracking down on anti-social parking of their vehicles.

A coalition of active travel advocates are calling for a significant expansion of shared e-bike and e-scooter schemes in Oxford, currently provided by Voi and Lime, saying shared bikes are a vital part of the solution to Oxford's transport problems and have transformed cycling in London.

Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...

Thalia Carr, Cyclox: “We do not see the scheme as unfair at all. Everyone will benefit from clean air. Fewer cars means increased safety for pedestrians and people cycling – everyone is a pedestrian at some stage. The congestion charge could offer all these things: give it a go.”

Welcome to East Oxford where half of the pavement is for cars, half of the pavement is for bins, none of the pavement is for pedestrians. 👎

A light artwork is proposed for the dank Cow Lane underpass under the railway close to Didcot Parkway station. ‘Routes’, by Ben Carlin and Helen Brook, will comprise six animated panels that react to pedestrian movement.

Our next meeting will be a chance for members to hear about the latest revision of our policy document, 'A More Walkable Oxford'. Join us on Zoom at 7 p.m. on Tuesday 28 October. www.oxpa.org.uk/meeting/2025...

Bus campaigners say that Oxford station needs a bus interchange – not a multi-storey car park. Oxon4Buses has launched a petition calling for Network Rail to ensure any redevelopment includes “a bus hub, physically and visually linked to the rail station”. www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...

500 signatures already! Please add your name to the Oxon4Buses petition at www.change.org/p/sign-for-a... www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2556059...

Oxfordshire’s street design should be influenced by best practice in Amsterdam and Oslo, according to a new commission by the County Council. A revised Oxfordshire Street Design Code is being drawn up with the support of consultants Create Streets.

Oxon4Buses have launched a petition calling on Network Rail to incorporate a bus interchange in their development of Oxford railway station: www.change.org/p/sign-for-a... Please sign and share!

Notice in today’s Oxford Times that the Cuckoo Lane footpath between Pullens Lane and Marston Road will be closed from 22 October 2025 to about 30 March 2026

Five primary schools in Oxford and Didcot are to have their school streets made permanent, where motor traffic is restricted at pick-up and drop-off time. The scheme has been running as a trial, first with volunteer wardens and then with ANPR cameras. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/school-stree...

This is one of the new 'side road entry treatments' on Banbury Road (at St Margaret's Road). It's a beautifully level invitation to pedestrians ... and a beautifully unmarked invitation to drivers 🤷

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131... #motonormativity @apiln.bsky.social

🚲 Big win for Abingdon! £1.5m secured to fix the missing NCN5 link + boost walking & cycling Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...

Two pilot “mobility hubs” are proposed in Carterton and Benson by Oxfordshire County Council. The projects include improved bus stops, covered bike lockers, widened pavements, and better pavement crossings over side-roads. A consultation is now open.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

'It is not helpful to either of us to have pedestrians and cyclists in conflict over the small amount of space accorded to both groups.' Letter in today's Oxford Times from OxPA chair Sushila Dhall

Pedestrians who? I’ll be just a minute. They can wait, or walk around me! Don’t they know I’m more important?! #antisocialparking - a daily sight at Iffley/Howard. Could we get some bollards, please?!

I urge everyone in Oxfordshire (or who uses our rail systems) to reply to this consultation on the 2040 plans for rail. I've talked about how improving cycling connectivity up to our stations could be transformative for rail travel AND local communities (1/2) letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxrail-2040

This is good news for pedestrians: bike racks to be installed in the road rather than taking away pavement space. Please support the consultation at letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxford_cycle... Deadline Friday 24 October

The evening shift has arrived. These junctions must never be clear. It’s a tough schedule but there are always dedicated local drivers doing what has to be done in the name of the antisocial parking movement.

'The driver thought it was okay, though, because he apologised.' (St Bartholomew's Medical Centre, East Oxford) #AntisocialParking

Pedestrians? Not my problem. Look, not my fault the Victorians built this terrace without a decent size drive!