What’s going on with the air quality in Oxford?

by Amygdali_lama

48 comments
  1. I thought Oxford was air quality nirvana with its LTNs etc

  2. Driving restrictions causing people to take longer routes?

    E: why is asking a benign question so offensive? 🤨 Read the response below, circle jerkers.

  3. Sorry. That curry last night has done me wrong. I’ve had a gaviscon, it should settle down soon.

  4. Felicity has dropped off Chlamydia and Tarquin at school in the 50 litre range rover

  5. That’s weird. Never would’ve thought that air quality dips around urban centres

  6. Oxford native here (born and bred, very much Town as opposed to Gown), I can confirm that medieval roads, stupid LTN policy, the low lying valley and the fact that local people cannot afford to live in Oxford means that commuting traffic is the number one cause. I can also confirm that traffic into Oxford from the North (via Woodstock and Banbury roads) miraculously seems to vanish after you pass the grouping of private schools in the North Oxford area 🤔

    The summer with the influx of tourists is unbearable. At least the students go some way in respecting the local area, much more than they used to anyway.

  7. Hopefully it has improved since I moved but have gander at London. By comparison, it’s looking healthy. Was living on a road that was at best light red….. haven’t lived in Oxford for ages but yeah, as another comment or said roads not design with cars moving through don’t help…. nor some drivers instance to come in no matter what.

  8. Everyone and their nan deciding to drive here on our tiny roads despite the massive park and rides that always have space. The tourists are especially bad, so many great big coaches idling right in the middle of town instead of leaving or using the aforementioned 4 park and rides on every single main road in. Students will walk or cycle, occasionally take the bus, as do most residents.

  9. Log burners probably, they’re the new fad since air fryers went mainstream.

  10. My dad has been sitting on the toilet for an hour over there.

  11. Lots of things strange going on in Oxford , I was previously involved in the ukaea fusion project which causes lots of power cuts whenever is fired up , totally clean energy though……

  12. It’s Hitlers fault.

    Hitler had wanted his UK headquarters in Oxford and the city wasn’t bombed. So, the medieval narrow roads remain and traffic is a nightmare. Unlike more fortunate cities like Coventry which fared much better.

  13. All the hot air from people explaining where they went to university.

  14. People live there

    Where’s that sub that shows maps correlate to where people live

  15. I’m not sure what you mean. Air quality is always lower in towns and cities compared to villages and the countryside

  16. This is why they’re proposing a ulez style system

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