Google have an animation, today, to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the first electric traffic lights.
101 years on, resurfacing continues on Drayton Road in Abindgon between 10pm and 6am, and Oxfordshire County Council has asked the contractor to put in electric traffic lights to allow two way traffic at St Helen’s Wharf –
after the anarchy of the weekend when people were asked to drive a few miles round, and didn’t.
Now that wasn’t so difficult, was it? It’s called “traffic management”…
I think, the problem was, is that it didn’t have time to have a very expensive consultant…consult on the traffic management proposal…giving enough time for The Veil, having paid for it…to then ignore it.
According to the Oxfordshire Guardian Abingdon could have most of 3000 new houses build in the green belt as the Vale of White Horse District Council is helping Oxford to meet its shortfall in housing. The Vale’s Planning policy manager Sophie Horsley said ” Good opportunities exist to address unmet need in this sub-are in accordance with existing special strategy at all levels within identified range. Could anyone interpret this? Health service providers are concerned that the Vale does not consider infrastructure in its planning for Abingdon
Guys – i know you dont like the vale district council but it’s not very fair to blame them for things that are done by the county.
If you want to make statements about traffic flow at least criticise the correct council.
Anyway – i dont care any more a yorkshireman has scored double the entire australian team and we’re going to win the ashes 🙂
Regain Iain regain 😉
🙂 good point colin
When we arrived in our council house in Abingdon. Built by Oxford City Council and GLC [long story but Royco went bust, joint funding to finish estate], Had to contact Oxfordshire County for roads and footpaths (designated as cycle paths so got lights). . Only when we purchased the house VOWHDC involved.
That is in fact a fair point Iain, however we don’t want to have people lulled in to a false sense of security; The Veil are pretty incompetent when it comes to, well…anything.
Let’s have a show of hands (I’m working at a medieval jousting event, so I know where this phrase originates); who’s happy with The Veil?
Well, there are a lot of people out there who voted for them only a few weeks ago so presumably they were?
As usual Ian you’re trying to shift responsibility, an awful lot of town and district councillors would have received notification of these works several weeks before work commenced ( I know that because I saw the notification that was issued by OCC) so would’nt it be reasonable to assume, nay expect our local councillors to act in the best interests of their constituents by reading and understanding the consequences of the diversions long before the event?
Stephen – you are of course assuming they didnt – given the traffic priorities were changed presumably someone did raise it.
By your logic the town might as well blame you given youve admitted you knew in advance. Call me simple but I like to blame the decision making body, not any old random group of people who i dont like.
Raise it they did Ian, Alice Badcock was the councillor who managed to sort the emergency change of traffic priority, as for me, I was merely in the loop and as you often say as I’m not an elected “person”! then I would have little chance of changing anything, it’s not a case of blaming “any old random group” you were the one who pointed the finger exclusively at the county council, all I did was point out the missed opportunities other councillors had to influence the job