CoHSAT - Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (Oxon)

A bus and the caption 'Free bus travel to coincide with congestion charge' (from BBC website)

"Give us options" they said...
Free bus travel and a host of extra services are coming to Oxford, thanks to clearer roads of the Temporary Congestion Charge
www.oxfordbus.co.uk/free-bus-tra...

St Helens Wharf is a two way road. It's just that not much traffic goes south because it's not allowed across the bridge.
The bike symbols are reminders to motorists that cyclists may appear southbound.

Contraflow cycle lanes are covered in LTN 1/20 6.4.21 to 25. This says normally Mandatory (solid) markings should be used. But below 1000 vehicles per day, advisory markings may be used.

Really very much the cars of the sky.

That one was mostly hot air.
Feel we've just got in before the Clarion there...
... and really torn by the lack of technical accuracy as an airship would use hydrogen or helium, not hor air.

... these will now stay and benefit from increased speed and reliability, including:
* Stagecoach 600 connecting Thornhill the hospitals, business parks and Redbridge
* Oxford Bus 500 service between BMW, Oxford Business Park, Cowley and Oxford
* Enhanced 3A between Oxford Science Park and Oxford

Travel groups sign joint letter supporting proposed Oxford congestion charge Oxford's travel groups sign joint letter supporting charging charging proposals in the city.

We and other #Oxfordshire transport groups are delighted that the Temporary Congestion Charge will start on 29 October.
Several bus routes have already been upgraded in anticipation of the Traffic Filters.
www.oxfordbus.co.uk/travel-group...

A cyclist on the repaired towpath

The foot and cycle diversion on the Thames towpath south of #Oxford centre is over and that section of path nicely repaired.
However, **caution** of gravel by the river for a few days.

I personally don't use one, but we are keen to make the streets and pavements inclusive and safe, and there are many problems and barriers. We and our member group Oxford Pedestrians Association @oxfordpedestrians.bsky.social campaign on this basis.

We do, and more. People will be able to park mobility scooters here too.
But the main benefit for people using mobility scooters and other wheeled mobilty aids will be the level crossing of the and removal of the barrier. The kerbs and barrier made it difficult for many.

We understand that the new design will include four parking spaces, for cycles, in the form of two Sheffield stands, and a raised table to improve pedestrian crossings and keep traffic speeds low in this residential street.

Oxford has had congestion problems for years.
In 2015, Labour City Council supported Conservative County Council in launching the traffic filters & core schemes.
In 2022, all parties & Councillors unanimously approved them as part of LTCP.
The solution is clear, regardless of political backsliding.

Wonderful to see Kidical Mass in its full glory in Oxford once again.
Well done @cycloxoxford.bsky.social

Could a speed limit change make motor profitable? As profits turn negative, it raises the question: what could a lower speed limit mean for safety (and carrier profits)?

With car insurance profits under pressure, the industry is looking at lower speed limits positively for massive cost (and life) savings
www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/brea...

Inspirational. Brilliant!
We've got our Kidical Mass ride in Oxford tomorrow, organised by @cycloxoxford.bsky.social ...
www.cyclox.org/index.php/ev...

Inspiration for tomorrow's #Oxford #KidicalMass
The family ride in Haringey last weekend organised by @haringeycyclists.bsky.social

Exactly why we used 'so-called'. They are neither sporty nor utilitarian.
FFCs, Fat Fashion Cars, anyone?

Sometimes, the solution to so many problems appears so obvious that you've got to question why it's not just implemented anyway.

Oh yeah, the car lobby and their profits. Nevermind.........

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows Thinktank says an ‘SUV loophole’ means UK buyers pay up to 20 times less tax on biggest models than in neighbouring nations

Undertaxing large and dangerous cars, such as so-called SUVs, exposes the public to harm and loses the Government around £2 billion in tax, says transport consultant @transportenvironment.org
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

No alternatives present here.
Not even from the Citizens' Assembly, which Labour supported to find the answers to Oxfordshire's transport problems.
This recommended:
* A car free city centre
* Bus priority streets
* Congestion Charge on top of Filters, ZEZ and Workplace Parking Levy

Good news that the works will soon start on this important crossing for school journeys

At one level, it's a question of ethics.
“your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
Not enough people recognise the harms done to others by driving a car. Sometimes this is justified, maybe (although 25% of UK households have no car), many times not.

Naturally, Walker didn't say what any 'right approach' would be. Because he, like others does not have any credible alternative to solve the transport problems in and around Oxford.

4) This includes not supporting the policies recommended by the Citizens Assembly, which include a Congestion Charge and a car-free city centre, despite saying they would implement this in their manifesto.

3) Anneliese Dodds MP and others in local Labour, both County and City, have called for action on traffic jams, but not produced any credible alternatives to their own Traffic Filters policy, which they say they don't now support.

1) Oxford's geography is of road space limited by history. That's why we've had traffic jams for years, as Dodds knows.
2) Public transport services in Oxford are among the best for a city of its size... except for the cars in the way of the buses (see limited road space)
3) ... to be cont...

Wildfires in Europe: record burning in Spain and Portugal Wildfires have scorched southern Europe and new research suggests climate change played a major role.

Meanwhile, Spain and Portugal are on fire capping the worst European wildfire season ever.
Do these WODC members not understand the greater danger?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Significant

We're guessing this is a pathetic attempt to gather data to feed the IOA/OBAG disinformation machine. When one bus route didn't reach its 'target' they would claim the whole scheme had failed.
A fallacy shown by XKCD:
xkcd.com/882/

A poster for Kidical Mass in Oxford 21 September

Kidical Mass is back in Oxford this 21 September!
Cycle safely with your children on a big friendly ride through the city.
Join one of 4 feeder rides 2pm, or at Gloucester Green 2:30 for 3pm ride.