Month: March 2025

View of Cornmarket Street Oxford looking north with pedestrians and cycles

Our response to Central Oxfordshire Movement and Place Framework

Read the response by our infrastructure group

Warneford Lane quickway in oxford. A lane for bikes and a lane for cars, separated by bollards.

Treating cars as guests on our streets

By Ian Loader

What if our cities, instead of favouring motor transport, expected cars to behave as guests? What would our streets look like if they were structured for the benefit of everyone, instead of being shaped around the needs of motorists?

Blue car parked in parking bay that is marked out so that car obstructs half of pavement

How did cars come to ‘own’ our streets?

By Ian Loader

How did we end up with our cities dominated by cars? With streets where pedestrians, residents, cyclists, children feel excluded and unsafe? With the idea that car owners have ‘rights’ to access, parking and speedy journeys?