Sir, So Oxfordshire County Council has ignored another consultation about transport, preferring to impose its own wishes on residents of the city. Two thirds of residents, unsurprisingly, do not wish to be taxed to park outside their own homes. Not bad going, particularly in view of how slanted and biased the consultation was. The only unusual thing about the whole sorry mess is that anyone is surprised.

OCC is now practically unaccountable and does what it likes on transport. Anyone who argues is either ignored (it took from July until late September for me to get answers to a few questions about their decision to impose privatised parking enforcement in West Oxon) or dismissed out of hand with self-contradictory and arrogant fob-offs.

Only in the topsy-turvy world of Council-Land could it be argued that taxing some residents of the county means that the inequality should be remedied by taxing everyone. It's time for change at OCC. We need innovative transport ideas and we need a council that will actually listen to the people whom its decisions affects. At the moment, we have neither.

Mark McArthur-Christie, Bampton