OxPA Meeting – August 31 2009
Bank Holiday Walk A Bank Holiday Walk from the Town Hall via Jericho to Port Meadow for a picnic was enjoyed by a group of seventeen OxPA members and friends. Our route gave us a chance to discuss recent changes to Queens Street, Bonn Square and the many new housing developments alongside the canal before […]
OxPA Meeting – Tuesday June 20 2009
Local Transport Plan 3 Speaker: Owen South from Oxfordshire County Council Transport Team Since the Local Elections there have been changes in County Councillors with responsibilities for transport. Councillor Hudspeth is to move from current his role but will still oversee important initiatives such as 20mph and Transform Oxford. There have been three Local Transport […]
OxPA Meeting – May 26 2009
Evening Walk On 26th May 2009 members marked the re-opening of the footbridge across the railway south of Oxford station by enjoying the walk entitled ‘Scott’s Oxford: South and West’ from OxPA’s book of walks, ‘Oxford on Foot‘. The street name on both sides of the railway adjacent to the footbridge is Osney Lane, and […]
OxPA Meeting – Tuesday April 28 2009
Open Discussion Topics discussed included: Recent County Council decision to implement 20mph throughout Oxford’s residential areas, and some parts of some main roads. We welcome this development but will continue to campaign for inclusion of all main roads and bus routes where most walking and cycling takes place, especially near schools and shops. This is in […]
OxPA Meeting – Tuesday March 24th 2009
Oxford’s First Car Club Speaker: Andy Henson We were fortunate in welcoming to our March meeting Andy Henson, one of the founding members of Oxcar, the East Oxford car club, who gave an informative and persuasive talk about its progress. Oxcar is one of six Car Clubs being developed in various towns around the country […]
OxPA Meeting – Tuesday February 24 2009
Speaker: Martin Kraftl from the County Transport Planning Team Transform Oxford was launched in October 2008 as a “vision” for enhancing conditions for pedestrians in the city centre. Although details of how this will be achieved are yet to be devised, the aims are clear: to reduce the number of buses in the City centre […]
OxPA Annual General Meeting – October 28th 2008
Annual General Meeting Guest Speaker: Sir Muir Gray At our AGM we welcomed guest speaker Sir Muir Gray, who gave a stimulating talk on the “10,000 steps” campaign to increase national walking levels. During the following discussion it was suggested that OxPA and Sir Muir might cooperate to organize a conference next year on urban […]