Consultation: connecting Oxford consultation

Abstract:

Overall the strategy lacks any commentary about electric vehicles (EVs) or e-bikes or really about cycling infrastructure at all. It also lacks provision for car sharing or bike sharing and both of these are major omissions. The next version of the plan needs to include the resources to implement the measures proposed with clear links to how the charging for road use or emissions reductions and parking is paying for the new measures. It also needs to be made clear how this plan is addressing the real problem around Oxford, which is the green belt and the massive, unconnected new housing developments. The strategy as currently set out, considers travel by car to be bad and by other modes to be OK. In a recent report about Shared Mobility, CREDS sets out how authorities need to have a clear plan for the way they are going to provide access to shared cars (car clubs) or shared bikes and also how they will treat sharing of lifts. The document states that an estimated 220,000 vehicle miles are driven in and around the city by around 45,000 vehicles every morning rush hour, emitting around 50 tonnes of CO2. The plan aims to reduce that by 25%. It seems implausible that all of this would transfer to bus and so by ignoring lift sharing the plan is missing a major trick.

Publication Year:

2019

Publisher:

CREDS

DOI:

No DOI minted

Author(s):

Anable, J. and Marsden, G.