Petition against Oxford congestion charge gets more than 9,000 signatures

Petition against Oxford congestion charge gets more than 9,000 signatures

Almost 9,000 people have now signed a petition against Oxfordshire County Council's plans for a temporary £5 congestion charge in Oxford.

Legal challenge to Oxford’s LTNs withdrawn

A crowdfunded legal challenge to the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in East Oxford and Cowley has been withdrawn after King’s Counsel advised it would “likely fail”.The crowdfunder was launched by Reconnecting Oxford, a campaigner with an active Twitter/X account, in August 2022. It sought to “end road closures in Oxford” by raising £30,000 to mount a legal challenge “against the Council’s mass road closure programme”. The appeal took aim not just a…