In town this morning various community groups were looking for people’s support. For two of the groups, time is running out:

Time is running out for the Old Gaol. This leaflet asks people to bring an alarm clock, or whistle, for the ‘Wake Up Call for the Old Gaol.’ The Wake up Call is at 11 AM – next – Saturday 20th October on the Market Place – for ten minutes. The executive of the Vale District Council have asked short listed developers to submit their bids and plans to the Vale Council by 22nd October.

Save Radley Lakes had a tombola and a card sale. The decision over whether Radley Lakes can be designated a ‘Village Green’, and saved from imminent destruction, is likely to be communicated next week. For them too, time is running out.

This car in the nearby carpark has what looks to me like a record number of parking tickets. It has not moved for over a week, and has been getting a ticket every day. The car also has a notice saying ‘For Sale £1350’ and another saying ‘Broken Down.’ So on the face of it, it has not got a lot going for it.

These men were doing a traffic survey at the Radley Road roundabout. Its part of the Oxfordshire Traffic Survey.

Other surveyers have been going round to randomly selected houses, asking people to fill in a 24 travel form including all their journeys – however small with lots of details: the how, why, when.

“…The information will be used in developing a Transport Model which will be used to plan and hopefully improve future transport requirements in the area…”

I see the road planners are now using words like ‘hopefully’. We have learned in Abingdon that transport modelling is an inexact science.

During the day new signs have appeared on the Co-op site. The fence has moved out so you can’t walk on that pavement anymore, and a cabin has arrived on site. These are the first signs that work has begun on the replacement Co-op store.