Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Transport Management

Forward Plan Ref: 2024/107

Contact: Robert Freshwater, Infrastructure Development Lead (Robert.Freshwater@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CMDTMT5).

The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve the following highway and bus journey time/ reliability improvement measures to the Woodstock Road, Oxford (A4144) as advertised and set out in Annex 1.  That subject to approval, detail and final design of the listed measures shall be delegated for approval to the Director of Environment and Highways in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Transport Management:

b)    Commence an experimental trial for a removal of part of the 24-hour southbound bus lane between the Wolvercote roundabout (A40) and Squitchey Lane and replacement with a northbound bus lane of similar length; alongside necessary supplementary measures.

c)    Implement new and improved side road crossings at the following side roads: Bevington Road, St. Margaret’s Road (East), South Parade, Little Clarendon Street, Observatory Street, St Bernards Road, Plantation Road, Leckford Road, Canterbury Road, Farndon Road, St. Margaret’s Road (West).

d)    Introduce a new section of off-carriage way cycle path on the western side of Woodstock Road between the junctions with Frenchay Road and St. Margaret’s Road.

e)    Provide a new zebra crossing on Woodstock Road to be located approximately 20 metres south of the junction with Bevington Road.

f)     Commence an experimental trial to relocate a marked parking bay (limited stay parking) outside Belsyre Court on the Woodstock Road.

g)    Deliver a range of localised measures detailed in public consultation plans set out in Annex 1 to support the aims of the scheme including sections of improvements to the condition of footway/ cycleways, amending road markings, install solar studs, and implementing measures proposed in the County Council’s 2021 ‘Quickways’ consultation for Woodstock Road.

h)    Implementation of a bus stop clearway (which will prevent parking except for buses at all times) - to be located within the existing bus stop, approx. 25 metres south of its junction with Little Clarendon Street.