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No Expressway Alliance – Radley Parish Council meeintg , 8 th July 2019

No Expressway Alliance – Radley Parish Council meeintg , 8 th July 2019. Hazel Dawe. No Expressway Alliance – an introduction. Launched September 2018 Membership currently 34 organisations Form Oxford to Cambridge Friends of the Earth. Aims.

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No Expressway Alliance – Radley Parish Council meeintg , 8 th July 2019

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  1. No Expressway Alliance –Radley Parish Council meeintg, 8th July 2019 Hazel Dawe

  2. No Expressway Alliance – an introduction • Launched September 2018 • Membership currently 34 organisations • Form Oxford to Cambridge Friends of the Earth

  3. Aims • To present the economic case against the Expressway and promote East West rail as an alternative. • To represent a wide geographical spread of member groups and individuals. • Conduct public activities • Assemble evidence to resist the Expressway proposals.

  4. Economic benefits • Expressway 1.2 or 1.3 to one • M4 relief road 2:1 – cancelled on cost grounds • Benefit below which government must review the project 1:5 to one

  5. Economic benefits – Highways England switching table To achieve 1.5 to one benefit for the Expressway • Costs must REDUCE by 14% and 21% for each corridor • Costs for HS 2 have doubled since the project began • A reduction of 20 – 25% would eliminate all economic benefit from the Expressway/

  6. Web sitenoexpresswayalliance.org • Conference presentations : • Sarah Foxcroft: How the campaign against the Expressway started • David Rogers: Countryside • Richard Harding: Housing • Chris Todd transport • Paul Miner CPRE – the arc

  7. Web sitenoexpresswayalliance.org • LayleMorna MP Oxford West and Abingdon – has always opposed the Exressway • Annaliese Dodds, MP Oxford East originally backed it for the housing it provides. After speaking to the Minister for Housing, Kit Malthouse, she too is now against the Expressway/

  8. No Expressway motions by local authorities • Oxford City Council - against • Oxfordshire County Council – government must consult Expected shortly - Vale of White Horse • South Oxford shire • Bicester town council

  9. How can you help? We need: secretary, treasurer, web site manager, social media person. Please respond to the October consultation on routes. - make the case for your locality but also oppose the Expressway in principle.

  10. Any questions

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