DRIVERS using Oxford streets as rat runs should be put off by bollards and other restrictions, according to a lobby group.

Oxford Pedestrians Association has called for the increased use of ‘modal filters’ - physical changes to a street to limit access to cyclists and pedestrians only.

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Elms Drive in Marston and Bagley Wood Road in Kennington are two routes where residents have complained of rat running.

Oxford Pedestrians Association tweeted a picture of a ‘modal filter’ in London and said: “So many streets in Oxford need this to stop ‘rat-runs’ and make residential streets safer.”