ONCE again we have Oxfordshire County Council officers Daniel Round and Stuart Wilson not facing reality, when one says we do not need the link road and the other that there has been no significant change in the volume of traffic in the past 10 years.
Has either of them seen the traffic on the A44 southbound from 7am onwards?
It is regularly queuing from Yarnton to Wolvercote roundabout, and the A40 is very slow moving from west of Eynsham from 6.30am onwards.
This link road should have been built when the A34 viaduct was replaced.
Traffic on the A40 from Yarnton to Oxford, a typical situation which frustrates Oxford Mail reader David Wintersgill
We will shortly have the new Parkway Station, The Northern Gateway proposal, the 1,500 houses proposed at Woodstock and the 300 at Long Hanborough.
Sorry but am I missing something here? Where is all this traffic supposed to go?
Still on the subject of traffic, the Highways Agency seems to be very good at wasting money, ie regular queues still at Junction 9. It should have been designed like the M40 junction at High Wycombe, with a slip road to the M40 northbound.
Further up the M40 at Junction 10, this will be the third attempt to try and get it right, so don’t hold your breath.
Do these people drive a vehicle who design these junctions? I don’t think they even ride a bicycle.
MP Nicola Blackwood is right in everything she says. We are fed up of being stuck in traffic every day through the incompetence of the above.
The number of man hours lost every day is colossal, not to mention the frustration.
DAVID WINTERSGILL
Rowel Drive
Begbroke
Kidlington
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