voxphotoConcrete work looks about finished, awaiting lamp posts etc.
AndrewC (migrating to ohai)Thanks to @DannyYee for the update about the Barton Park crossing, still unchanged after 6 years, and still inconvenient, intimidating, and dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. A perfect summary of the problem, and sensible demands for #Oxfordshire County Council
https://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2025/02/cycling-between-northway-and-barton-park-across-the-a40
cycling between Northway and Barton Park, across the A40
It is 39 metres across the Barton Park junction cycling from Barton Park to Northway, and 46 metres going the other way, measuring the distance from the stop line to the edge of the far-side A40 traffic lane. For this to be safely cycled by children and slower adults, someone cycling at 8mph
Big smash yesterday on the #A40 crossing I cycle through every day for my commute. Took out both of the crossing's beg buttons on the #BartonPark side. Plods were still in attendance at noon, and it's still a mess now
Reading @DannyYee 's excellent 2022 summary of this dangerous junction https://wanderingdanny.com/oxford/docs/Barton_Park_and_the_A40.pdf, and you should too. Increasingly pissed off that nothing has been done
There's footage out there of the incident that I'll post behind a CW
Sometimes the chance to do an urbanism (try and get some action on a really bad road crossing) just drops through your letter box
QR code: https://linktr.ee/bartonparkroadsafety #Urbanism #Oxford #Barton #BartonPark #BikeTooter @mastobikes
