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Traffic
lights at Headington roundabout
Getting onto the roundabout is a free?for?all, in which Barton traffic
comes off the worst. This junction has already claimed one life.
That is one too many
Pelican crossings on Cherwell Drive and Marsh Lane
Old Marston
residents take their lives in their hands when they try to cross
these roads. A pensioner and a young child have already been killed
there.
Higher?profile community policing
Local
people should be able to feel more secure on the streets and in
their own homes. Why should our area bear the brunt of the county's
shortage of police officers?
Proper maintenance of local roads and pavements ?
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The state of our roads is a disgrace. If city centre
roads can be resurfaced twice in 18
months , why can't our crumbling streets and potholed roads be better
maintained?
Proper funding for local schools
Improvements to local schools such as Sandhills should
be paid for out of the £ 0.5 bn
government education grant or out of our council tax, not by selling
out to a developer.
Less traffic through Risinghurst and Old Marston
By restricting access routes to the city. the Oxford
Transport Strategy, which cost us all a cool £20 million,
has actually increased the volume of traffic passing through our
area.
Better recreational facilities on Wood Farm
Leisure facilities for both the old and the young
on Wood Farm and other of our estates need to be greatly improved.
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Ken
Tiwari lives in our area and cares passionately about it. He raised
a family in Old Marston, with his wife Anjana, and they still live
there today. For thepast twenty years, Ken has been a local magistrate,
and for nine years, until last year, was a city councillor. He now
sits on the Risinghurst and Sandhills parishcouncil and is the elected
chair of the Old Marston Residents Association. Member of Wood Farm
Tenants Association.
Ken Tiwari held the Old Marston and Rislnghurstseat for Labour on
the Oxford City Council from 1991 to 2000. His record of achievement
includes:
A
citywide policy of closer cooperation between local authorities
and the police which has lasted for more than a decade
Launch of local Neighbourhood Watch schemes on a street by street
basis.
Better maintenance and lighting of footpaths, cycle tracks and subways
to makethem safer and to deter crime
Winning support for halting the sale of allotment land to developers
in OldMarston, and opposing housing development on the Sandhills
School site.
Improvements to local council houses and flats including, repainting,
modernizing and installing central heating and double glazing.
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As a city councillor Ken's conviction that his first duly
is to his electorate sometimes put him at odds with his own
party.
Ken now vows to carry on his fight for local people on
the county council as an Independent, free from party dictates
and party discipline.
Isn't voting Independent a wasted vote?
Not at all. The Oxford County Council is a hung council, in
which no single party has overall control. So the major parties
are forced to seek support beyond their ownranks, giving an
Independent councillor a great deal of bargaining power to
drive through his own agenda. In fact, there are already 8
Independent county councillors, who were elected and have
proved effective for just these reasons. In some circumstances,
the Independents could even form a voting block themselves.
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