IT is a pity having come so far down the road of pedestrianising Queen Street and other city centre improvements that Oxfordshire County Council has stalled (if you pardon the traffic puns).

Some of the work identified under Transform Oxford had been done, but now the county is saying it can no longer afford to implement the rest.

But things like pedestrianising Queen Street would not cost the earth. We wonder if, despite all the effort, it is a lack of political will as much as financial might.