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The politics of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (spring 2024 edition)

The politics of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (spring 2024 edition)

A long-heralded report on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods was published by the Department for Transport yesterday (17 March). Trailed by warring briefings in the Guardian and the Times, it was long on rhetoric but short on substance. Of the parts that look at Oxford specifically, the report rehashes air quality and

“Impeccably balanced”: the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood reporting

“Impeccably balanced”: the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood reporting

Analysis of the Oxford Mail’s low-traffic neighbourhood coverage shows that the city’s legacy print newspaper takes a consistently hostile view of the project. Using text analysis software, the Oxford Clarion has examined the Mail’s LTN coverage, and compared it to other reporting by the same paper. The