A director of a group which campaigned for the divisive Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) is standing for election to Oxford City Council.

Scott Urban is a founding member of Oxfordshire Liveable Streets, which called for measures to stop cars using residential areas as through roads and shortcuts.

Dr Urban will stand as the Liberal Dem candidate in the Cowley ward in the local elections in May.

He was born and brought up in Colorado in the United States and has lived in Oxford since the early 2000s.

He lectures in economics at Hertford College, and works as an independent economics consultant.

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In 2018 he was part of the community campaign to take over the old children's centre at Florence Park.

The centre is now Flo's - the Place in the Park, a community centre and cafe run by volunteers.

Shortly after that he founded Oxfordshire Liveable Streets after he organised an event called 'Going Dutch' with expert speakers from the field of active travel and public transport.

They included Jacques Wallage, a city councillor in the Dutch university city of Groeningen in the 1970s when the left-wing administration banned cars from the city centre and made more space for bikes and pedestrians.

More than 100 people showed up to hear how Oxford might be able to 'Go Dutch' in a similar way.

Though Oxfordshire Liveable Street had small beginnings, with volunteers largely coming from Oxford, groups affiliated to it have popped up in Abingdon and Bicester.

In 2020 Dr Urban told the Oxford Mail: "To me, transport activism is climate activism.

"I think transport is the sector that has made the smallest contribution towards improving our carbon footprint and I am convinced that that has got a lot to do with how we use single occupancy private vehicles."