• Jon Burke: Humanising our streets
    0:00 Intro (Councillor Damian Haywood) 2:41 Ambition 6:40  Keep the faith 8:43  Social media 10:25  Campaign to humanise our streets 13:48 Cars are costing us 15:55  De Pijp, De Bouvoir, Oxford … it’s the same arguments 17:16 Power matrices  18:35  Jane Jacobs defeated Robert Moses 21:19  Main routes  26:43  Councils’ internal […]
  • Connecting Oxford Plus
    Connecting Oxford Plus Connecting Oxford is the city and county councils’ proposal to improve transportation in Oxford. It (1) takes through-car traffic out of the city centre and (2) takes through-traffic out of the inner ring-road (B4495). Both of these would be accomplished by ANPR cameras to allow transit of […]
  • Emergency Liveable Neighbourhoods – Cowley
    Updates, news and online-meeting information related to proposals to create three emergency liveable neighbourhoods for Cowley — in Church Cowley, Florence Park and Temple Cowley — are detailed on the Cowley Liveable Neighbourhoods page: oxlivsts.org.uk/cowley Please feel free to use the space below to post your comments and questions. All […]
  • Emergency Active Travel Funding
    1 June 2020 Yvonne Constance OBE Cabinet Member for Environment Oxfordshire County Council Re: Emergency Active Travel Funding Dear Councillor Constance, The undersigned organisations – Oxfordshire Liveable Streets, Oxford Friends of the Earth and Oxford Civic Society – are delighted to see that the funding allocation made to Oxfordshire by […]
  • St. Mary’s Liveable Neighbourhood
    This scheme for a liveable neighbourhood in the St Mary’s area (including Howard Street and Magdalen Road) was commissioned by city councillors Craig Simmons and Dick Wolff and has the support of city and county councillors for the affected areas. [pdf-embedder url=”https://oxlivsts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/St-Marys-Low-Traffic-Neighbourhood-Presentation-26th-March-2020.pdf” title=”St Marys Low Traffic Neighbourhood Presentation 26th March […]
  • Statement to Cabinet of Oxfordshire County Council
    Address to Oxfordshire County Council Cabinet on behalf of  Oxfordshire Liveable Streets 26th May, 2020   When it comes to transport, there is no longer a status quo. The population does not expect the usual procedures to apply. The government did not consult the people of Britain before implementing lockdown, […]
  • Motherload movie | Fewer cars, More go. Oxfordshire screening
    Don’t miss this event! Live Q&A with the director and with the leader of Waltham Forest Borough Council. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/motherload-movie-fewer-cars-more-go-tickets-103524422334 Sunday, May 3. 645-945 pm.
  • OLS Statement on Oxford “Zero Emissions Zone”
    Oxfordshire Liveable Streets supports the Zero Emission Zone proposed for central Oxford, but we feel it is far too limited in scope, and not just in the area covered. There are many reasons for reducing and restricting motor traffic in central Oxford. With its narrow focus on exhaust emissions, the […]
  • Botley Road Corridor Improvements – Comments on revised plans
    Image: Enjoy Waltham Forest submitted by Oxfordshire Liveable Streets — 25 November 2019 contact Danny Yee <danny@oxlivsts.org.uk> The changes to the original proposals for Botley Rd introduce some small improvements and some regressions. In the light of Connecting Oxford and the urgent need to reduce motor traffic volumes, we urge […]
  • Electrification and Simplification of Public Transport in Oxford
    “Electrification and Simplification of Public Transport in Oxford: A ‘Revolutionary’ Suggestion” is a new pamphlet written by Oxford resident Keith Frayn. It begins: Oxford’s bus network is characterised by duplication of buses on the main arterial routes, resulting in part from multiple bus operating companies and in part from the […]
  • (VIDEO) Mini Holland: Waltham Forest and Beyond
    A film by Al Kinley-Jones. See more of his work at kinley.al
  • Costing a Low-Traffic Neighbourhood in Oxford
    Update 29 June 2020: The maps associated with this project and budget are not current. Please see oxlivsts.org.uk/cowley for latest maps. You can download the Budget for a Low-Traffic Neighbourhood in Oxford here. The budget was drawn up by C Proctor Engineering Ltd.  The firm’s proprietor, Chris Proctor, is the […]
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  • Implementing Liveability: Clyde Loakes at Oxford Town Hall
    Waltham Forest Deputy Leader Clyde Loakes speaks about implementing the only successful ‘Mini Holland’ scheme in London. Councillor Loakes is Deputy Leader of the Waltham Forest Borough Council. He will be speaking about the experience of Waltham Forest in implementing Britain’s first comprehensive low-traffic neighbourhood scheme. The scheme is part […]
  • Botley Road Corridor Improvements – consultation response
    submitted by Oxfordshire Liveable Streets contact Danny Yee <danny@oxlivsts.org.uk> The scheme is basically a refresh of the existing layout, with some improvements but no change in fundamentals. In particular, it assumes as a primary goal the maximisation of motor vehicle throughput in peak hour, prioritising that over safety and accessibility […]
  • Traffic Evaporation
    “You get the traffic you build for” is an axiom that all of Oxfordshire’s localities should live by. Years of research conclude that building more roads generates additional traffic, and reducing the amount of road-space evaporates some traffic. This post is about evaporation. As the image implies, some of the traffic […]
  • Oxford City Centre Movement and Public Realm Strategy
    Oxfordshire Liveable Streets in April hosted a city-centre meeting on the two councils’ City Centre Movement and Public Realm Strategy. This meeting was organised by OLS on behalf of the Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel. We were extremely fortunate to have the attendance of most stakeholder groups associated […]
  • 20 Pence Day
    Please join us on Friday, April 26! OLS members and supporters will gather in the city centre to hand out flyers and stickers to commuters and others arriving by cycle, on foot, or on the bus. We want to say ‘Thank you’ for benefiting our society despite the unwelcoming infrastructure. […]
  • Mini Holland Workshop
    Oxfordshire Liveable Streets in January 2019 hosted a Mini Holland briefing for Oxford city and county councillors and officers and other community leaders. We are grateful to our two presenters from Waltham Forest who shared their invaluable experience with this exciting project. Below is an excerpt from the presentation. [embeddoc […]
  • Strain
    Oxfordshire’s transport arrangements are strained. The annual budget for maintenance is £15 million. For context, this is double the amount cut from children’s services in 2016 (Oxfordshire County Council, 2016). Yet this is only a fraction of the estimated £400 million needed to put the county’s road infrastructure right (Oxford […]
  • Scott Urban Speaks at Oxfordshire County Council on UK ‘Urge and merge’ versus Netherlands ‘Build it and they will come’ Infrastructure
    Remarks to Oxfordshire County Council In support of motion for active travel 6 November 2018 My name is Scott Urban. I run a small company in Oxford. I am also a Director of Oxfordshire Liveable Streets. I have been very impressed with the pro-active steps taken by this Council in […]
  • Motorised traffic journey times after space-reduction
    London’s Cycle Superhighways (CSHs) offer one example of a reallocation of road space between cycles and cars. The graphs above and below indicate the impact on journey times for motorised traffic, as of November 2017. These are from Transport for London. Journey times are certainly up. But for the first […]