Car Free Day - letter to Oxford Times
May 30, 2006 2:25 PM
It's a pity that Keith Mitchell, leader of Oxfordshire County Council, takes the churlish view that the City's 'Car Free Day' on 22 September is "silly tokenism" (Oxford Times, 26 May). Refusal to try anything different, just for one day, is not a sign of strength, nor a quality usually associated with good leadership.
Plainly those who work in the City but live some distance away and some distance from public transport often need to travel to work by car. No one suggests otherwise; nor is anyone proposing that Cllr Mitchell acknowledges the City's Car Free Day by using the rare train from King's Sutton or hiring a horse and cart . But he could surely try carrying less clobber and using the Park & Ride for a day. Hundreds of other people without the reserved parking in the City centre that he enjoys do so every day, also encumbered with briefcases and laptops. He may find it easier than he thinks and that he's able to do so once or twice a week.
Traffic problems in the City are so bad that every effort to improve them is to be welcomed. Cllr Mitchell's refusal to put himself out by participating in Car Free Day is uncalled for. No one is so much more important than everyone else as all that.
Yours faithfully
Cllr Janet Godden
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