{"id":12139,"date":"2025-03-29T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:46:28","slug":"cyclox-local-election-hustings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/cyclox-local-election-hustings\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclox local election hustings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the run up to the County Council elections, taking place on 1 May, we asked representatives of the four main political parties this question: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">What do you think is the best way to make Oxford&#8217;s streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Their 1-minute video responses are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Brad Baines, Labour Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video Hustings: Brad Baines Labour County Councillor\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7vgUpDfuks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Matthew Barber, Conservative Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video Hustings: Matthew Barber Conservative PCC\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PvnAY18EqII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andrew Gant, Liberal Democrat Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video Hustings: Andrew Gant Liberal Democrat\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKoau9RODOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Emily Kerr, Green Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video Hustings: Emily Kerr Green Party City Councillor\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U48oSHM93kU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We took the opportunity of meeting the candidates to have a longer conversation about the issues we are concerned about, and we look forward to working with them in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank the contributors for making the time to be interviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Scrase<\/p>\n<p>In the run up to the County Council elections on 1 May, we asked representatives of the four main political parties: &#8216;What do you think is the best way to make Oxford&#8217;s streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,139,67],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-active-travel","tag-cycling-in-oxford","tag-oxfordshire-county-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12143,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyclox.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}