What has the Oxford motorist done to deserve the shambolic and chaotic system that we have at the moment?

Everyone of us who tries to earn a living in our beautiful city and surrounding localities is faced with road humps as large as small mountains.

Speed limits are restricted to 20mph in St Giles. In my opinion it is more dangerous to keep an eye on one’s speedometer rather than keep it as it was at 30mph. And, who was the ‘Brain of Britain’ who designed the chicanes at the road junctions ie Hill Top Road and Divinity Road, also Crescent Road and Hollow Way? Who had the audacity to plant trees in them to supposedly make the chicanes more amenable?

Finally, in the village where I live, Old Marston: A relative to the ‘Brain of Britain’ decided to erect a chicane on a blind bend, just past the Red Lion public house, Oxford Road, going north from Cherwell Drive. Road rage is certainly encouraged with all these daft ideas.

R Timms, Oxford Road, Old Marston, Oxford

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