HOW daft can our councillors get?
They want to turn the A40 into “a landscaped city street” (Oxford Mail, December 15) with pedestrian crossings across this wide road and a reduction of the speed limit to an unrealistic 40 mph.
The A40 is one of our busiest main roads and part of the Oxford ring road.
Pretending that it can be turned into a “landscaped city street” is complete madness and will only make this a very dangerous road, as well as causing immense traffic jams around the bypass.
If the council wants to give the West Barton residents easy access to Oxford, they could run a road north of the A40 along to the junction with Marsh Lane. Or they could build a bridge over, or a tunnel under, the A40.
But it is ridiculous to suggest that, without road changes, the residents of West Barton will be “isolated”. They will be no more isolated than those who live in other estates around Oxford.
Tony Augarde, Carlton Road, Oxford
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