RADCLIFFE Square is the hub of tourist Oxford as it is the hub of the University. Tourists are often attracted out of it along a pleasant traffic-free path, Brasenose Lane, which leads them imperceptibly to the Covered Market and thence into other commercial areas, where they can spend their euros, yen and dollars to the benefit of the local economy.

So what does the council do? It closes Brasenose Lane for three weeks in July for works to improve the carriageway.

I can only hope that these works are not too noisy, and that we do indeed end up with something which somehow or other looks ‘improved’, bearing in mind that there is very little wheeled traffic to benefit from all the expense at this time of cutbacks elsewhere.

Roger Moreton
Warwick Street
Oxford

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