Why is it that Oxfordshire County Council insists on making journeys a real nightmare for motorists?

I read in this newspaper that some bright person working for Thames Valley Police had parked his speed camera van on the cycle track on the Eastern Bypass. What was wrong with the layby just up the road? If I parked my car there I would be told to either park in the layby or be moved on by the police.

You also reported a BMW employee was caught doing 101 miles an hour, on the very same section of bypass which is now a 50mph speed limit.

Please can someone tell me why this speed limit is in place, as speed was not a factor in the accident which killed those people back in 2005?

In the aftermath of the accident, they had a 3ft -igh concrete wall put in place, to try to stop another head-on accident happening again. Everybody is moaning about the cars travelling in excess of this 50mph speed limit on this stretch of road, but what about the the other stretch of 50mph bypass around Oxford (Botley), there too was a fatal accident, but the speed limit was only dropped to 50mph a couple of years later, because the noise level rose, as the volume of traffic on the A34 rose heading north towards the newly opened M40.

Lots of cars travelling in both directions on this stretch of the A34 are in excess of the 50mph speed limit every day, I don't see any articles about that. I have never seen a speed trap here, as they do on the Eastern Bypass, although the police do sit up on the bridge on the southbound carriageway by South Hinksey with their radar guns, trying to catch any speeding motorists as they exit the 50mph speed limit.

Why doesn't Oxfordshire County Council just apply to the Government for a new 20mph blanket speed limit?

That way it should reduce the amount of serious accidents and we can have all new signs at the borders that say "Welcome to Oxfordshire, the slowest county in the land".

DAVID SPEAK, Upper Heyford