This is why the redevelopment of the railway station has to provide a proper bus interchange.

Poppy on a horse's arse #Didcot @remembrancewatch.bsky.social

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Let's have good cycle parking and a proper transport hub for Oxford Railway Station www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...

My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

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. 👎

Parking is a money loser. If it was public transport it would be said to be unfair to the taxpayer. Parish and district councils have few economic levers and think subsidising parking creates better places. The opposite is true.

Paris has now permanently pedestrianized hundreds of school streets. Serious question: Is there anywhere in the UK that has even done one? Is there not so much as one municipality in this entire country where child safety counts for as much as car owner convenience? Not one?

We are a little bemused that the council containing one historic shire is “Oxford & Shires” whereas the council containing two historic shires… isn’t

None of these changes was "inevitable" or "natural." They were all the results of deliberate policy actions (or inaction, which is a policy choice too).

I've written about the worst city in the Netherlands. It's just 3000 words. A quick read. What Lelystad teaches us about new cities, why you probably shouldn't build them, what to do if you must,... and why you might need to. ps. Lelystad is actually good. tomforth.co.uk/newcities/

We're preaching to the converted of course, but we really wish that those managing projects like this would come and get some advice from people who know what they are talking about. These are not fit for purpose through their shape, fixings, being too close to each other and to the kerbs! Fail.

Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2) archive.ph/RKXqW

The decision to (incorrectly) remove all the bus lanes in the first place was based off the (correct) finding that just painting bus lanes on dual carriageways because space is there for them does not actually improve bus reliability. You need targeted priority measures for buses at key points. 1/

All motorbikes are anti-socially loud and most drivers overuse their car horns. There should be legislation against excessive vehicle noise. I don’t know how we do that. I’m not in charge. I’m just here having niche, but serious, ethical stances.

On-the-ground work has begun on the £300m+ HIF1 road around Didcot and Clifton Hampden, including site setup and archaelogical investigation. Main construction is expected to start in the spring. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/early-stage-...

Oxfordshire’s councils are being reorganised. Which plan makes the most sense? We crunch the numbers in an extremely geeky long read. Warning: contains cheese (and cheesy jokes) oxfordclarion.uk/oxfordshires...

This is written in National Highway's own "about us" page. They are promoting car dependent sprawl as part of their business plan.

Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.

We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council. This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.

Small case in point - I was at Euston yesterday, which meant inevitably you get a great view of the ongoing troubles of the West Coast Main Line - something that currently, Labour's plan to fix is 'by 2029, it will still be bad, but we will be branded as our fault'.

📣 “Bikes stolen from train stations left for more than 2 hours will not be investigated,” says British Transport Police. 🗣️ Cycling UK’s Sophie Gordon: “Bike theft isn’t petty — it can be devastating.” 👉 Read more: road.cc/content/news...

Good to see that one year on: Didcot gridlocked with cars ✅ Dangerous as ever to cycle ✅ Pavement parking out of control ✅ GWR trains expensive & late ✅ But it’s okay; once Olly gets promoted we may see some change. Starting to feel it was a wasted vote & the change promised isn’t coming #didcot

🚲 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...

Last night's book launch for Lines of Power. Another use of my German v Uk graph. Flicking through this morning am drawn to the conclusion - a fervent hope is that the opportunity for a rolling programme of electrification does not slip from view once again.

No room for your car? Just leave it on the road, on the pavement, on a verge - anywhere really.

Government plans for “a 21st century market town” at Chalgrove Airfield, 10 miles south-east of Oxford, are finally set to go live at the end of October. Homes England has announced a consultation event on 22 October in Chalgrove. chalgroveairfield.commonplace.is

🚦❓ How many traffic lights do you need to manage in-neighborhood traffic in this 1.3 sq km densely built and apparently gridded area of Södermalm, Stockholm?

Why do pavements get built like this on brand new roads? Is it because designers see the pavement as an accessory to the road that must follow the kerb line. Or maybe that's what the software spits out and nobody questions it. @showmeasign.online @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

We don't need more airport capacity. Nothing bad will happen to the country if we don't add more airport capacity

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

Also: this intersection, where multiple bus and tram routes cross, is simply managed with a yield. When you kick out car traffic, letting transit operators (and pedestrians) manage conflicts at low speed without signals becomes much easier.

When I travel around midlands/lower north at the moment I’m amazzzzedddd by how much housebuilding and massive new private estates are going up in not super affluent places as family homes. All nowhere near any shops but next to the ring road. Market Harborough, Congleton, Peterborough, whatever.

I recently spoke in Parliament about the impact of pavement parking—a concern I hear often from constituents with disabilities, sight loss or mobility aids. It makes everyday journeys harder and more dangerous. Councils need proper powers to act. Everyone deserves safe, accessible streets

That is precisely what a new high speed line would deliver, by taking long distance services off the existing Huddersfield line and allowing that railway to become a high frequency electric suburban line. You get two railways for the price of one. threadreaderapp.com/thread/10445...

The same Oxford Labour leader who “forced” the LD/Green admin to create a citizens assembly on transport. They wanted to give “residents more say”. That assembly of residents strongly backed a congestion charge (74%).

One of the reasons I oppose exemptions for the ice rink clubs is that it opens a can of worms for everyone to ask for exemptions for their club/activity... bsky.app/profile/oxfo...

if it were any other item of personal property that I didn't have space to store then it would be frowned upon to just dump it on the pavement outside my house and make everyone else deal with the issue of it being in the way.

Of course the original meaning of that sign was the cancellation of a built up area speed limit. There's nothing sillier than a major A road built to modern standards with a 50 limit and lots of these coming off it. Completely backwards. Make NSL 40 and upsign high quality roads. Less clutter.

One of the biggest problems with cycling infrastructure in Oxford is that it is riddled with what I call "dual provision", where two bad options are offered to people cycling instead of one good one. THREAD, following blog post at wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2025/...