Sign in Subscribe

Transport

Traffic Filters vs Congestion Charge : Contest or Evolution?

Traffic Filters vs Congestion Charge : Contest or Evolution?

The Oxford Traffic Filters switch on this morning, and we've just got used to the congestion charge. Oxfordshire Liveable Streets are a not-for-profit organisation working alongside residents across Oxfordshire to imagine and build streets and neighbourhoods that work better for everyone. Today we open the pages of the

Two signs, one an advance warning for the filters and the other the sign at the traffic filter location.

Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s Traffic Filters

Want to travel in Oxford, but worried about the traffic filters from Monday, 28 September 2026? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the traffic filters entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. There's an official website

Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge

Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge

Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our hacks are better. Oxfordshire residents, you got this!

Oxford’s commuter future

Oxford’s commuter future

Could Oxford learn from Copenhagen and Cambridge? We ask if rail commuting could be an answer to the city’s housing woes. In 1947, Copenhagen’s Urban Planning Institute set out a “finger plan” for development of the city. To avoid uncontrolled sprawl, the finger plan proposed that new houses

Oxford’s traffic emergency needs a bold approach – Luke Marion on the congestion charge

Oxford’s traffic emergency needs a bold approach – Luke Marion on the congestion charge

A temporary congestion charge could be introduced to Oxford this autumn to get the city’s streets moving again. Among its main aims is speeding up bus journey times, currently suffering from queues on the main routes into the city. We asked Luke Marion, Managing Director of Oxford Bus Company,