Parents are refusing to allow their children to cycle on a busy road because of danger from speeding traffic.

Kingston Road in north Oxford has speed humps and chicanes, but residents say vehicles are still reaching speeds of up to 60mph.

Councillors have agreed to introduce new safety measures but people living there are not convinced they go far enough.

Tests have shown that since the speed humps and chicanes were introduced in August 1999, average speeds have gone up from 23mph to 28mph.

Rebecca Abrams, 37, co-founder of the Kingston Road safety group, said: "An increasing number of parents don't want to let their children go down it on bikes.

"Lorries and cars have an incentive to speed through the road narrowings before the car coming the other way as they don't hold anybody up."

Kingston Road is a national cycle route, there are three schools along it and it is part of Oxford's safe cycle routes to schools.

City councillors agreed to replace unpopular priority signs for northbound traffic at road narrowings with give way signs on both sides.

The road will be narrowed and a speed cushion built north of St Margaret's Road and new speed cushions will be introduced at the southern end of Kingston Road.

Paul Mylrea, chairman of the St Barnabas Better Ways To School group, said the new measures went only part way towards meeting their demands.

Cllr Jean Fooks, chairman of city council's highways committee, said it could not do all it would like to do in Kingston Road due to lack of funds.