Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet will vote on a major road project around Didcot tomorrow.

The HIF1 scheme, estimated to now cost £296million, is a scheme between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden.

The cabinet will vote on Tuesday on a proposal to advance the project to the next stage.

Greens are calling for them to pause it.

Cllr Robin Bennett, county councillor for Berinsfield and Garsington division, which includes some of the areas affected by the scheme, said: “The HIF as presently designed - a series of new roads, a vast flyover, a river crossing and road dualling - is a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem. It’s absurd that in an area steeped in rail history, a light rail solution apparently isn’t even being considered.

"Didcot, in the heart of the Science Vale, can and should become a model for the transport of the future,” Cllr Bennett added. 

Greens are calling for the county council to look at alternative options which could include a Science Vale Light Rail transit system, interconnected cycleways, improved buses and an integrated fare system. 

Cllr Sam Casey-Rerhaye, district councillor for Sandford and the Wittenhams, which includes Culham, added: “The county cabinet is effectively being given two bleak options: cancel the scheme and risk financial and political penalties, or carry on fiddling around the edges of a fundamentally flawed design."