WITH respect to my proposal for a park and walk located on Osney Mead, Oxfordshire County Council leader Ian Hudspeth has missed the point. This idea will not increase cars on the A34.
A car park accessed directly from the A34 within 10 minutes walk of Carfax will enable the closure of all city centre car parks, and Seacourt park and ride and Redbridge park and ride. No additional parking spaces will be created.
All the cars that currently use the A34 to come to Oxford will be taken away from the city junctions and roads. And all the park and ride buses no longer needed for Seacourt and Redbridge can then service the new park and rides further out. This proposal actually meshes well with Ian’s team's ideas. As long as there are city centre car parks and through roads, the city’s roads will be clogged up, however many park and ride there are. That is human nature.
Remove the possibility of parking or driving through the city and the problem is solved. I agree that the ring road is also clogged up now, but park and rides further out combined with this park and walk idea should solve that. Then all we need to do is build thousands more houses in the city.
ADRIAN JAMES
Mill Street
Oxford
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