Geoff Leitch, a resident from Littlemore, complains in his letter that LTNs are making pollution levels worse in some streets.

I wholeheartedly sympathise with the residents featured in your paper who are victims of the extra pollution brought about by LTNs.

Oxford Road in Littlemore was one of the first affected by this blight. Contrary to councillors claims, no monitoring took place prior to the event.

In the last 10 years we have had one day, duration eight hours, of traffic monitoring. It was some five years before this concept was even aired.

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The nearest air quality monitor, prior to the event, is almost one mile away situated at the far end of Rose Hill, on the allotments where barely no traffic goes.

Only by constant campaigning plus the diligence of our city councillor, Tiago Corais, have we had monitors placed on Oxford Road to both sides of Rose Hill roundabout.

Sadly these monitors only give results that cover many months. They cannot measure peak period problems or differentiate between night and day or any weather changes.

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They also only measure specific items of the air quality. Hardly a good representation.

I have written requesting a response and asking for a meeting with Councillors Gant and Leffman, plus Mr Gant’s predecessor Councillor Bearder, on so many occasions it beggars belief.

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To date not a single reply from Mr Gant or Mr Bearder and a single rather terse reply from Ms Leffman.

In this paper, before they made the Cowley LTNs permanent, they promised mitigations to ease the problem.

We have nothing and, with the increase in housing in the area, over 30 per cent, the situation worsens on a daily basis.

As with the people in the article, I want to see less pollution, but it needs to be for all.

Stop making part of our communities sacrificial lambs fed on false promises and bad air.

Geoff Leitch

Littlemore

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