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Three traffic wardens for one car
I watched a pack of traffic wardens surround a car in Market Street, Oxford this afternoon. I guess only one gets the bonus and perhaps they had all raced to get there, the fastest getting to do the j… more →
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Three traffic wardens for one car
Editor wrote 1 year ago: I watched a pack of traffic wardens surround a car in Market Street, Oxford this afternoon. I guess … more →
Speed cameras and statistical ignorance
Editor wrote 1 year ago: A new study shows that government claims about lives saved by speed cameras are overstated. This is … more →
Verboten to photograph the Fuhrer
Editor wrote 1 year ago: We used to mock the Germans for the devotion to the outward forms of authority. Back in the days whe … more →
All announcements and no information at FGW
Editor wrote 1 year ago: It would be useful (for the passengers at least) if the people who run First Great Western stations … more →
Desecrated Oxford in the Times
Editor wrote 1 year ago: A letter under the title Oxford desecrated appeared in the Times of 19 May. The writer refers to the … more →
Condemning the sludge in the public service pond
Editor wrote 1 year ago: I do not often run ad hominem attacks on public servants. It is often hard to distinguish between th … more →
Oxfordshire transport head on High horse
Editor wrote 1 year ago: There is a letter in this week’s Oxford Times from Steve Howell, Head of Transport at Oxfordsh … more →
£13 million less to waste on roads in 2008
Editor wrote 1 year ago: The Government has cut £13 million from the money which Oxfordshire County Council hoped to spend on … more →
Few no smoking signs in New York
Editor wrote 1 year ago: Why do we need all the no smoking signs? Is it because Caroline Flint was herself too dim to manage … more →
Social compact in New York streets
Editor wrote 1 year ago: I was in New York recently, and marvelled at how it works compared with London or Oxford. Four thing … more →
Digging up the Cowley Road again
Editor wrote 2 years ago: It is only a few months since Oxfordshire County Council did major works in the Cowley Road. Their … more →
Expect more Highways junk at Aristotle Lane
Editor wrote 2 years ago: My post Come to see how not to do it at Aristotle Lane is answered by a reader who saw a similar gro … more →
Come to see how not to do it at Aristotle Lane
Editor wrote 2 years ago: I came across this little party yesterday afternoon, standing amongst the 15 pillars, posts and othe … more →
What a load of bollards in Oriel Square
Editor wrote 2 years ago: Oriel Square was a bustling, pretty little place when I first knew it, as an undergraduate in the 19 … more →
Welcome to Summertown
Editor wrote 2 years ago: There used to be a notice at each end of Summertown saying “Welcome to Summertown”. Ther … more →
Capital ignorance at the Plain
Editor wrote 2 years ago: My post Gents in St Giles Oxford referred in passing to “the screaming capitals so beloved of … more →
Pedestrians cross here
Editor wrote 2 years ago: A recent post called Rubbish and Graffiti by the Oxford Canal looked at the bridge which carries Fre … more →
Oxford models Health and Safety nonsense
Editor wrote 2 years ago: “We have them here in droves at Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. The counci … more →
Rubbish and Graffiti by the Oxford Canal
Editor wrote 2 years ago: The photograph below encapsulates quite a lot of Oxford’s neglect in one go. We see a hideous … more →
