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A month ago I wrote to Andrew Gant the county councillor responsible for transport who maintains that nothing that has gone wrong is his fault. I challenged this listing 9 separate ways in which the County Council either contributed to the project going wrong or failed to mitigate its effects.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@anthonybarnett.bsky.social Hello! Julian Le Vay here. Thanks for following. How are you and Judith? My brief episode as revolutionary now seems over but it was fun, worth doing and took my mind off the absolute awfulness of everything for a while.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Some gains. The two groups worst affected, small businesses and disabled, now have groups representing them and Network Rail are listening and there will I think be some. Already more frequent Botley Flyer service. The city and county councils still dodging all responsibility though.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Friday's news was awful, unbelievable. Having spent 20 months hacking just 100 yards of road, Network Rail we're going to spend another 20 months hacking at the same hundred yards of road. As in a nightmare, the same thing repeats and repeats, but nothing changes.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Venue changed to The King's Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The rail minister Lord Hendy is coming on Friday to tell us that nothing about the Botley Road fiesta is his fault and in anyway everything's now fine. If you disagree, come and tell him, outside the community centre, Botley Road, on Friday at 9:30 a.m.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Councils response to my letter listing 9 ways they bear responsibility for the Botley Road closure; 'yeah, well, we hate N Network Rail too'. That wasn't the question, guys. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2486516...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Network Rail is busy prettifying the Tunnel of Doom in advance of their masters visit (the minister, who is in law the sole shareholder of the company). Things that we ask for in vain for two years and our suddenly being done, leveling the surface of the walkway etc.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

The report as prompted quite a few people to describe their experiences for the first time. I thought this one is particularly appalling:

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

When Network Rail sought the Council's approval for their plans to expand Oxford station, they said they would close Botley Road only for four days. (It's the only road that connects West Oxford to the city.) It's now been closed over 600 days. There is now no date for reopened at all.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment