Danny Yee

Aaargh, do we need four parties all chasing populist nonsense?

Unless you remove the frog’s brain first, apparently…

More people taking the bus since Oxford temporary congestion charge Data from bus companies shows more people are using local bus services since Oxfordshire County Council introduced a temporary congestion charge in Oxford.  The data from Go Ahead, which owns six loca...

The data from six local bus companies including Oxford Bus Company and Thames Travel shows overall year-on-year passenger numbers are ~8% up since the introduction of the congestion charge. A third of this increase is on park and ride services news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...

We should be razing car parks!

The one time the county checked - sent an officer on a bus around Berinsfield - it turned out the bus went above 20mph for only a few seconds. But the effects may be bigger early and late, when there’s no congestion and buses aren’t stopping at every stop.

The bus operators (or at least one of them) say otherwise, so it’s been a problem

Definitely put those signs all over our remaining 30mph roads! Andrew Gant has promised that a 20mph scheme for Oxford will be brought forward when Botley Rd reopens.

I'd be wary about putting one of those stickers on my bins, because I live on a Victorian-era residential street where the design speed is more like 15mph.

The sticking point here has been the county commitment to speeding up buses. But watching people scuttling across roads to get to and from bus stops (and presumably _not_ seeing some people doing that who might want to), this does seem counter-productive.

The gaping hole in this is Oxford's main roads, most of which remain 30mph. On a more policy-driven approach, these would have been among the first changed to 20mph since they have large injury clusters, people crossing everywhere, cycling movements in and out of side streets, lots of schools, etc.

Even mention cycling and it goes straight to thermonuclear.

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After transfers there will only be one candidate left - or stop transferring when two candidates are left?

So you support reallocating enough car parking bays to shift all of the micromobility parking bays onto the carriageway?

Maybe, but what about the UAE, Kuwait, etc?

I was thinking less of elimination order changing the result than of it producing results that seem wrong or unintuitive. That seems quite common with the last senate position, but less so in single-selection contests.

It was a real struggle sometimes with the Senate ballot papers in Australia (and New South Wales)... so many possible choices for last place.

Australia has compulsory full preferencing in the House, and limited required preferencing in the Senate. Never been a problem, though I can remember it was hard sometimes deciding who to put last on the huge senate ballot papers.

Coming from Australia,this seems like a complete no-brainer. I’ve never heard of anyone, ever suggesting we switch to FPTP.

Australian experience is that order of elimination effects are very limited in the House (constituencies) but a huge factor in the Senate (pr)

Yes, every household gets a choice between 100 cc/traffic filter permits, 100 bus trips, or credit towards buying a cycle or getting one serviced.

Good to see the Conservatives have sunk to the point where no one can even be bothered voting against them.

And the bridge over the A40 to Land North of Bayswater Brook

This is totally regressive. Raising fuel duty (and/or road pricing) is pretty much the softest way of restraining motor traffic volumes. Without that we are going to need much more drastic measures.

Text "United States Department of Agriculture. Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bin by Truck." Illustration of a semi truck with a watermelon as its trailer.

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I've just requested this from the Bodleian (which seems to have three copies of different editions, but all in storage) - will have to read it in the library.

And the Russian attacks are surely more sophisticated and better coordinated.

Supertanker permeability missing?Poorly designed continental structure.

What's the best book on Pedestal?

One error in it - the presenters confuse Oxford's "traffic filters / congestion charge" (main road restrictions designed to keep key routes clear for buses) with its "low traffic neighbourhoods" (which keep through motor traffic entirely out of areas of residential side-streets).