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Station plan offers once-in-a-century chance

4:10pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Your correspondent Dominic Utton underplays the significance of the new station (Off the Rails, May 2). What Oxford and Oxfordshire face is a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a rail station and transport interchange worthy of the city and capable of accommodating the steady increases in rail and bus users.

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Disastrous policy

4:09pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Having read your report regarding the proposal of the running of the A34 by Oxfordshire County Council (Report, May 9), I must admit that the first thing I had to check was to make sure it was not April Fool’s Day.

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Appalling delays

4:08pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I was interested to see how keen that Mr Hudspeth and his colleagues are to take over the running of parts of the A34 (Report, May 9). I have to say that given their appalling performance in providing disabled access to Headington Library and the delays involved that it might be best if Oxfordshire County Council was relieved of all its duties rather than given more. Arnold Brewer, Headington

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Bus lanes on A34

4:08pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – The thought of Ian Hudspeth’s county council taking over the A34 is quite chilling (Report, May 9). His Cogges Link Road calamity is not an encouraging precedent. Even more county council potholes along this main artery would be misery.

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Narrow thinking

4:06pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I was dismayed to hear about the proposed changes to The Plain roundabout. In my experience, narrowing roads is not a positive innovation for cyclists. The so-called ‘improvements’ to the London Road in Headington caused massive disruption while they were being implemented and led to it being named as one of the most congested roads in the country. This has a negative effect on all road users, not just drivers. Narrowing the road by extensions to the pavement forces cycles into the path of other vehicles and makes journeys more difficult. It would be better if our transport money was put into making proper cycle lanes and repairing potholes (which are hazardous to all road users). Susan Cuthbert, Oxford

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Plain problems

4:06pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Fran Bardsley’s article (May 9) describes a commendable move to improve cycling on The Plain.

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Time for real localism

4:05pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – The Government claims that, in endorsing its Neighbourhood Plan, Thame’s residents voted for 775 new homes. They did no such thing. The 775 houses, far too many for Thame anyway, were centrally imposed and Thame was not permitted to vote for fewer.

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Big problem?

3:45pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – In the 1970s, I lived near a prosperous part of north-east London. Given the times, you might think that there were greater issues but denizens of one road — which ran parallel to a radial road and had several junctions — vociferously complained of the presence of too many street nameplates which was, apparently, blighting their environment. I thought that if this was their worst problem . . . Now I follow a furore about one view of Oxford being foreshortened by new buildings near Port Meadow. Déjà vu?

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No threat to meadow

3:44pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – Toby Porter says quite rightly that the city council has ‘a legal duty to protect Port Meadow’.

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Place tolls on cyclists

3:43pm Friday 17th May 2013

Sir – I cycle when it suits me. Invariably I have alternative forms of transport, notably walking, it is my choice. However, I am also aware that it is a privilege.

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