In reality, they shove them in anywhere it meets their car parking removal agenda (for example, on a hill) rather when they'd actually be useful (i.e. 100 yards away, at the bottom of the hill, where water actually collects).

Then they don't maintain them, so they become weed-infested litter traps.

Rain gardens tend to be yet another cynical tool in your lot's armouries to justify car parking removal.

Which are then badly maintained, look like shit, and residents hate.

Rain gardens are great, if you love rubbish strewn eyesores.

A controlled parking zone (CPZ) for Lower Wolvercote has been deferred for further study pending effects of the Oxford North development and charges at Godstow car park, after a dozen people spoke against the scheme.

Cycling went up in Summertown, awkwardly.

We could do with getting some new official numbers for Rymers Lane, because the official LTN report suggested cycling numbers were lower after the LTN went in than before.

Do you have any post Covid numbers, indicating increased usage? Because these numbers indicate not.

Maybe we should ask?

Erm...

So you've changed the goalposts of your complaint in one post, when you were proved to be wrong?

It's as if the popular, mainly traffic free, quiet way of Meadow Lane doesn't exist.

Which it does, of course, which is why you're wrong.

It need extending to St Aldates across Christchurch Meadow.

Ironically, it was only the IOA that put an upgrade to the Marston Cycle Path at the centre of its city election campaign. MCP floods regularly in winter at one end, and is unlit at the other end.

A political consensus on its improvement could be obtained - if OCC spend any money on such schemes.

They love living in their little echo chamber, shielded from other opinions?

Well, tough. We're going no where.

Modern trams don't need tracks.

For the benefit of Nathan Ley, here is what the LTNs did to air quality in Oxford. The worse pollution outcomes, city-wide, were strongly correlated with LTN boundary roads, and the best outcomes were..everywhere else.

The council didnt do this analysis, so we did.

Also, what's with the blocking?

If you ignore the council's own evaluation data, which showed that relative pollution levels went up, boundary road traffic increased, buses slowed, residents rejected them by two to one, there was no measurable increase in cycling and walking, and traffic only fell on roads that were blocked off.