22-05-2025
Health responders exempt from Oxford's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Healthcare workers who assess and treat patients in crisis at home will be allowed to drive through restrictions in Oxford's two low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs).Introduced in 2023, the schemes stop motorists taking shortcuts through residential areas in East Oxford and Health NHS Trust supported the exemption for its urgent community response (UCR) workers, which could equate to about five or six vehicles a permission was granted by Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for transport management, Andrew Gant.
But he said it did not mean other exemptions in the LTNs would be approved."The numbers involved here are tiny and it's not the case that making one change automatically implies that other changes will follow," he said."Each proposal or suggestion is dealt with on its own merits."He added that the council's plan for other measures, including traffic filters, would continue as part of a "multi-pronged approach" to cut congestion in Pugh, Oxford Health's head of transformation, said it was critical that urgent community responders got to people as soon as said delays can lead to "serious knock-on effects" for people and ramifications on the wider healthcare workers often help older people who are having a health crisis or difficulties at home and seek to prevent transferring them to hospital, if council has spent nearly £4m on the LTNs and its quickways cycling routes in Oxford since 2021.
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