traffic evaporation: Oxford's 2021-2022 low traffic neighbourhoods
People who think the new low traffic neighbourhoods in Oxford have created exceptional levels of congestion have forgotten how bad traffic was pre-pandemic. To see this, consider the following map, which shows a "cordon" around the Cowley and East Oxford low traffic neighbourhoods. This is taken from the county's Annual Average Daily Traffic Map and the little coloured circles mark traffic count points.
This table shows average traffic (in thousands of vehicles per day) at the various count points on that cordon, for 2018-2019 and for 2023-2024, and the percentage change between those. (I am using those dates for comparison because 2020 and 2021 were during the pandemic and the Cowley and East Oxford LTNs were put in in 2021 and 2022.) more