TWO planned bus gates for central Oxford could be scrapped at a meeting tomorrow (October 13).

Bus gates are roads guarded by cameras that fine car drivers for passing through them.

They already operate in parts of Oxford, including the High Street, with the intention of speeding up buses by clearing congestion on roads.

Two new ones were planned between Hythe Bridge Street and Worcester Street, and between South Parks Road and St Cross Road on a temporary basis following lockdown.

A decision on whether they were going to go ahead was due in August, but then delayed after 7,200 responses to a survey found there was a roughly half-and-half divide between those against the gates and those in favour of them.

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However, 15 per cent of those in favour wanted more information before saying they definitely wanted the new measures to go ahead.

Because of this response, Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet, its most senior councils, are likely to shelve the plans for now.

The cabinet is meeting tomorrow at 2pm to decide the future of the temporary bus gates.

But the two bus gates could come back alongside three more in a scheme called Connecting Oxford which aims to stop traffic jams across the entire city.

Connecting Oxford would employ bus gates alongside a new parking charge on employers with large car parks in East Oxford, as well as a 'rapid transit' shortcut route for buses through the east of the city.