Sir – The latest suggestion from Oxfordshire County Council is to remove all parking from the Iffley Road from The Plain to the Bullingdon Road (except for some parking at night). This will be damaging to the local area in the following ways: The severe reduction of parking for local residents, which will be especially grave during the proposed redevelopment of the St Clements’ car cark.
The severe reduction of parking for customers of businesses in the area with the removal of short term parking bays in the Iffley Road.
The dramatic increase in road noise and vibration caused by large vehicles passing much closer to the houses in the Iffley Road once the parking bays have been removed. The inevitable increase in speeding vehicles in the Iffley Road due to the removal of the parking bays which currently calm traffic and provide an effective chicane, in due course make cycling more dangerous not less. Given that the proposed removal of the parking bays will only provide a cycle lane for a matter of a few hundred yards the overall improvement for cyclists will be minimal, yet it will also be at substantial cost to the already hard-pressed and excessively taxed ratepayers of the borough.
Adrian Greenwood, Oxford
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