AS a keen cyclist and cycling safety campaigner, I’m pleased to see former Cyclox chairman James Styring use his column to praise my successful cycling safety petition, the direct result of listening to St Clement’s residents’ concerns over nine months.
More than 50 Rectory Road residents were so concerned about cyclists going the wrong way down their road that they signed the petition for clearer cycling signage.
The Conservative County Council agreed that there was an urgent issue and is going to be installing clearer signage soon.
But more needs to be done. I agree with James and Cyclox that we have to fill in East Oxford’s deadly potholes and enforce the 20mph speed limit.
We also need to look again at the whole transport layout to make it safer for all road users. Like St Clement’s residents, I want more, safer, cycling now.
The wider agreement we can reach on this the better.
TOM HAYES
Mill Street
Labour Party city council candidate for St Clement’s
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