Oxford Mail readers have been giving their views after it emerged that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have been causing concern for pupils including those with special educational needs.

In March, Oxfordshire County Council trialling LTNs in Church Cowley, Temple Cowley and Florence Park.

The controversial scheme includes putting planters or barriers on particularly streets to stop through traffic.

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Now it has emerged in a council consultation that the local authority’s Special Education Needs transport team raised concerns about the time it was taking children to get to school since the Cowley LTN was introduced.

The team said journeys were taking an hour for pupils and for some it was making them so distressed they were not well enough to access education when they arrived at school.

DOROTHY MURPHY: This article is about children with SENDs having to spend up to 75 minutes in school transport. This is not acceptable.

LISA BROOKS: “It’s also frustrating if you don’t know the area and sat nav tries to send you down these roads.”

JOSE RODRIGUES: “This is the case for everybody. It’s not only for school travelling.”

NATE JAY: “These things are a fantastic idea, the city needs more of them.

Put pressure on the council to put more in place not take them away.

Residents can then get that 70’s feel by putting in hair rollers, putting on your best dressing gown and gossiping outside while the kids play safely in the streets.

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Win win.”

LORRAINE GREEN: “Get rid of these stupid LTNs they are causing so much trouble and divide, this is not the solution to anything! Causing havoc everywhere - give us back our roads - stop this nonsense!”

DAVE CORNES: “Lorraine Green who said they’re your roads? Do you live on any of the LTN ones?”

LORRAINE GREEN: “Dave Cornes I pay my council tax I pay my road tax. I’ve lived in Oxford all my life the roads belong to all of us ….. not just LTN supporters.

“This is not the solution - and in answer to your question yes I do.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “The LTNs have negatively imppacted on the mental health and emotional well being of many, increasing anxiety levels.

“They’re also giving a sense of false security to those parents who feel it is now appropriate to allow their children to play on the road and injuries are inevitable.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “I think the logic is that as children can’t drive we need rat runs so that adults can drive their kids to the park.

“For this to happen we need to store our cars on public land. Therefore there is not room on our streets for kids.

“As our roads are busy with people rat running, you’d be crazy to let kids walk or cycle.

“Nevermind those who struggle to get to the park, or who are not able to drive.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “SEND children are more likely to have to travel further to meet their needs.

“But regular children seem to be chasing around Oxford merely to satisfy the whims of their parents.

“It’s time to end the nonsense and have children allocated schools purely on the basis of geography.

“For example, not simply because Kennington was in Berkshire until the 1970s so the children have to go to Mathew Arnold.

“A new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Thames would put them in walking distance of the one at Littlemore.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “Road injuries halved in low-traffic neighbourhoods installed during the coronavirus pandemic when compared against areas without the schemes, a new study has found, with the greatest reduction being to pedestrians, and no increase in injuries in surrounding areas.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “But there were few cars around during lockdown anyway.

“If accidents had increased during that time then we should have worried.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “Some SEND pupils are taking around 1 hour to get to school.

“They haven’t had their journeys increased by up to an hour.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “I think we are probably talking about special needs children who are picked up by taxi or minibus and having to call at a number of addresses within the LTNs.”

OXFORD MAIL READER: “It’s time to get the Oxford LTNs ripped out permanently; they’ve completely failed.”