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No no they haven't that is the issue

I see what you did there.

That's a John joke.

hard to believe

Not only that, it's a Park & Ride for Oxford!

Think Stonehenge is a solar calendar.. Thou perhaps it was a stone age park and ride? Definitely out of town...

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Genius 😂

That corporatism for you..

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Im lucky I live in Wales wich after uk join eu they quickly gather council money add eu grants and start building. Roads water pipes parks. There is tons of blue signs telling this and this was build thanks to eu money. Now after brexit all stopped and holes in road starting to slowly show up again. But its not terrible yet

That’s Tory councils for you. Someone got rich off this scheme, follow the money. I bet you it’ll be a Tory donor or suchlike who is involved.

​@sajuente8235 they just piss away money In other areas instead

Well said

Probably won't get vandalized a huge amount as it's in a fairly remote location. And it looks like the council are spending money keeping the place maintained so their massive waste isn't toooootally wasted.

If this were in Australia, there would be tyre skidmarks all over it by now...

@@berenscott8999that’s why there is no road Conections lol! I live a few miles from this site and didn’t know it existed. Round these parts vandalism isn’t a massive worry but you never know, there is a secondary school in Eynsham!

The trees won't be an issue, as any council worth its salt will use a root barrier. If anything, it's better to plant them earlier and let them mature in time for its opening.

Not a waste of money. 1 mil for the job. 50 for their gold fund.

Shit Load of Money! Yea! Hahahahaha! 😇 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odNgktmAqsWWiHk.htmlsi=dKnLRlPqjpotPVze

It's £60,000 per (unused) parking space...

@@Bambagustrust Exactly. look at Any construction jobs awarded by councils, i was flabberghasted when the bridge at tadcaster took 13 months and £4.4 million to repair after the floods after an 'estimate' of £3 million. it's criminal negligence at best but corruption more likely. same with the bridge at elland costing £5 million. I think people are now that conditioned to seeing figures of millions & billions they don't realise just how much these sums that they ultimately have to pay for are, but no-ones going to spill the beans are they?

It boils my piss

It really is difficult to tell malice from incompetance these days.

That's what the bad guys in jack reacher were involved in . Happens all over

🤷🏽‍♂️ just build the mosques

@@jack6450which is exactly what they rely on for protection!

The thing is, there's absolutely no way there are 850 spaces, at least in it's current stage both in this video, and in media elsewhere. Max 400, and I'm being generous.

The going rate seems to be around £10k per space for a surface car park so there's something fishy going on. The site was previously agricultural so there is no reason the council should have paid more than about £12k per acre. If it did then the landowner is profiting at the taxpayers' expense. I guess it's easy to splash the cash when it's other people's money.

Not just a car park though

Taking a parking space at 2.5m X 5m + 20% circulation space gives a cost per meter of £4k , thats double the current build cost of a house. That should be enough evidence for the fraud squad to be looking into this.

Incentives for finishing early are common in construction and can be substantial. I wonder if there were bonuses paid out for that.

nah, nobodys pocketed anything, thats just bureaucracy for you. the bureaucrats gotta get paid somehow.

Someone will manage to do it. Unitentionally. Probably confusing the barke and accelerator pedals - normal excuse for these types of shenanigans.

Maybe this is Jon's next trip out?

They knocked my flat down to build it 😢

​@@ap9970your flat got flattened 😂

@@thebrowns5337 The barke pedal? Is that unique to the Vauxhall Cavalier? 🤔

This has multiple hallmarks of corruption.

Inflaytion...!? Paula?

Ehhh Boutros Boutros-Ghali

@@AutoShenanigans Scorchio

I'm the man, and here's the road: 🛣 Road man road man road road road man man

End of year and 50 million left in the kitty. Time to dust off those park and ride plans.

It's very embarassing to have to say "The project isn't going ahead...here's your brown paper envelope back"

TBF it does sometimes depend where the money comes from. Central Government can be a right pain for 'ring-fencing' money. I.E. it can only legally be spent on say, a park & ride, and the amount spent must match the bid entirely AND must be spent by a set date or you get none of it. That leads to stupidity like this. We had electric bollards put in on local streets by our council. They weren't paying, Government set a certain amount aside for it and a private company chipped in as long as they got to lease them for a while. With the budget being only available in separate pots, during set times, they kept coming back to put infrastructure in different areas, even if it wasn't connected straight away. Otherwise they lost the cash for it. Don't get me wrong it's nice to be able to charge an EV on the road (at least if you own one, I imagine) but the ways it's done isn't the most efficient. And local folk won't understand it's either do it that way, because of daft Government rules, or miss out totally.

You should see what the United States Marine corps throws away in order to not lose money with budgets lol 😅 The waste is gargantuan.

@@ABrit-bt6ce They could EASILY have spent it fixing potholes, though, but they had to have the big shiny project instead.

£51 million??? that's an incredible amount of money. once contractors get their snouts in the trough enabled by 'friendly' councillors, they charge what they want and these contracts don't easily get cancelled. It should be basically just a large asphalt slab with marked bays and access roads. As you say it's just criminal.

its complete incompetence jobs for the boys probably with a back hander

Care to explane, other than mad conspiracy theories rattling round your head, which part of this contraviens the law on fraud?

@@ianhudson2193 The part where they obtained £51M from central government by making the false claim that building a P&R that isn't even connected to the road network would improve transport links between Eynsham and Oxford.

@@beeble2003 Oh dear! Have you got on your nurse's computer without her knowing???? You'll get suspended from window licking class........again!

Can’t reopen as much of it has been built on.

There is a plan for this being pushed by the Lib Dems, projected cost 900m

where will they build it?

£1bn, just for Witney to Yarnton halt

@@djmfaz goggle Witney Oxford Rail Link

And lining their own pockets too

Don’t forget the 2 years they spent making a bus lane that’s about a mile long between Yarnton and Oxford, which I’ve literally never seen a bus on since it opened.

Vote for the left - get incompetence

botley road being closed is also a nightmare at the moment, i dont know why they dont just let people use this park and ride now.

It's a classic tactic for schemes like this. Ask for less than you need, build less than you promised, then ask for more and argue that - if you don't get it - the original money will have been wasted. Either you get more money than agreed originally, or you can blame the lenders for refusing to fund the rest of the project - it's a win-win situation for the council and building contractors.

It doesn’t have any cars

With no road access to it they probably had to pay a farmer millions to cross their land with all the construction vehicles and material deliveries.

It didn't cost £151 million....

and then there is the up keep costs until its opened ! which will probably costs the same again..... dont they know about nature reclaiming unused roads.... MADNESS

Upkeep /security will probably exceed inflation savings by some margin.

Thank you, I was desperately wracking my brain for what that tune was!

​@@derekmarshall6332ditto!

@@derekmarshall6332 😉

It's the why bird stop. (why did the council build this with no access) lol

Playdays before BBC went woke and had Educational programs on TV.

This is happening in so many towns... adding massive housing developments but no way to avoid the congested centres. And the public transport argument they make is a complete joke if you are not commuting within a city or happen to be going between 2 places on the same line, can easily be a 3 hour+ option because 1 bus/train per hour connections where a car is under an hour peak times. I gave up here when realised evening and sunday busses to other major local places (like say Milton Keynes...) just don't even exist.

They do have a bypass in Oxford - it is called the ring road. It just no longer is. It is now just part of the suburbs.

Assuming its like other cities they legally can't refuse developers permission due to top level government mandates about housing targets. At the same time they can try and pat down developers for little infrastructure improvements here and there but nothing like the money needed for a functional master planned network. At least the A40 got dualled for that development you were lucky to get even that.

The developments at the A40 near the BMW dealer and just within the A34 have been progressing though. This video does rather conveniently ignore the elephant in the room (or lettuce perhaps?) that saw the council's budget in real terms plummet and borrowing costs soar. It's no secret that inflation in the construction sector has also far outpaced general consumer inflationary indexes. I agree its an unfortunate time in the project for all that to happen. But its clear that it also isn't the 'corruption' that only people commenting on the internet are able to detect....

I agree, in the main. It's not corruption, more like incompetence and inability to run large projects. Why build a large parking area but no entry to site, or even attempt to attach planning for the road entry in the same project? That will mean further public consultation, processes to be completed in order to get planning at further cost when it could easily have been in the original planning? Why did WODC planning approve this without having access to site? Try that on a private property, see what happens. Although it is OCC who provide the traffic impact assessment and therein lies the rub.

The odd thing is that it doesn't seem a bad idea if it were to be completed and opened straight away. The A40 is traffic clogged and so the buses would creep along in that at the same speed as cars. But passengers would still avoid having to park in Oxford itself (or at a different P+R) and if some transfer to the buses at Eynsham that would reduce the number of traffic movements and congestion a bit. So make the P+R free and the buses very cheap and see whether it builds up some usage. When the road improvements and bus lanes come that will give a further boost and the service can be increased.

​@@karlosbricks2413 The Wolvercote roundabout construction was for the new £700 million life sciences innovation district Oxford North. The original plans for the park and ride (approved in 2021) had an approved budget of £37M which included the access roads. It was also part of a larger plan to dual carriageway the A40 with possible bus lanes. This was all before the current Lib-Dem (traffic hating) councillor for transport Gant took control.

I'm guessing they're a Tory?

The upgrade of the electrical distribution network in the area to accommodate the he car park lighting, the CCTV, the barrier system, the bus station shelters, the IT system powering the signage and ticketing equipment. It's never as simple as throwing a bit of tarmac on a field I'm afraid!

Corruption.

Land costs I'd guess

@@Sarge084that’s still nowhere near 51m for anyone except the council.

@@AI-Records24It is I'm afraid. These things cost, I guess if they decide to expand it in the future it will cost less per space, as the main infrastructure is there already. But don't tell the fools at the council that or they might decide to expand it just so they can say they got more value for money and give themselves a pat on the back

And the country wants to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in ten years time. Good luck!

Two ev charges was the £10k tax brake hmrc gave to any business in 2020-2023 that why thousands of companies and businesses only have two charge points. U spend 2k of a pair of chargers and got £10k off your tax bill And if ur turn over was more than 500k you could claim up £60k of the price of a ev company or pool car.

Two too many.

Let the mental people charge them at home from what I hear unless it’s Tesla those chargers are far too expensive anyway, same cost if not more than fuel in some cases

@@AI-Records24 Not everything is about money. Sometimes it's about more important things like having clean air to breathe and an environment that isn't toxic to health. Saying that, we should get rid of cars in general. There are far too many. We need to invest heavily into integrated public transport systems that are reliable and affordable. Imagine how much better off everyone would be both financially and health wise if we had transit as good as in London everywhere else in the country? The big urban hubs at least should have such things. Then all the people obsessed with their cars who hate everything from public transport to cyclists to EV's or pedestrians (which you also are, by the way, when not in your metal box) will be happier because there'll be less traffic to get stuck in.

If your tyre and spine were ruined by a pothole, maybe you should have slowed down.

Remember when that disgruntled nutter burned down all their offices a few years back ?

introduced 20 mph speed limits?

Wasn't going that fast, if I was the tractor I was behind certainly needs investigating.

@@djmfaz And then remove them….

Two years...?

@@johnstilljohn3181 Give it a week 🤣

We will have to remind Jon to go check it out 24-36 months hence..

We all know .

Give it a month and it'll be full of caravans and empty of scrap metal. And the council won't be able to do a thing, even as their precious road surface is hauled away by a parade of dump trucks to be sold back to them to fix the damage.

That should't be down to local councils, that should all come from central government. In a more sane time, it did. And the NHS was in a far better place for it. We can afford all of these things as a country, we just need those in power with the political will to do it.

West Oxfordshire council would demolish the park and ride first… The show has shown how childish and prejudice they are towards him……

He’s built his own car park now after getting an estimate of £100,000 to have one built. What they’ve done to his businesses is criminal, like him or not, begs the question… why does his cost £100,000 from a contractor and the councils cost 51 million? IIRC he ended up doing it for 50 odd k.

Rail is also much, much higher capacity than roads, so it'll take a good amount of traffic off them at least for commuting.

The railway is at least £1bn though

You won't get much railway for 50mill

@@andyg3 No. You’ll need approx. another £950mill for Witney to Oxford

Well out of all the things that the uk has uselessly spent it might add up to the money to spend on railways one example of the uk wasting money is tarmac

@@davidleach6882 A ten-mile branch line isn't HS2.

Spoiler alert...... The council got their just desserts from the independent Gov't arbitrator, but the poor taxpayers got landed with the bill for council's petty mindedness, their personal vendetta against JC, and spite

@@neilgodwin6531 I mean, Clarkson is a bit of a bell end. Well, massive bell end. Huge in fact. The biggest of bell ends in town.

brilliant

Always has been. If people need to drive to the park and ride, they will just finish the rest of the journey in their cars

@@user-op8fg3ny3j I commute in from the west semi-regularly and need to get to the city centre, parking at Westgate is too expensive (And very difficult because of the Botley road closure) so this P&R would actually be really useful for me. Instead now I have to drive past a pointlessly closed P&R and go to the Botley P&R and hire one of those e-scooters.

Good job it's only six miles out then. And did you watch the video? The point is that they're building a whole new town there.

Fixing potholes isn't going to do anything for the traffic issue. It would be odd to build a park and ride if cars were hated, surely then the only option would be just get the train?

Which P&R is that in Southport?

@@mrlister2000 The one on Foul Lane

People shouldn't vote for these councillors

He waved at me. It must be a you problem.

He waved at me with both hands for 3 minutes!

Probably not the first time you've felt that way.

Maybe Jon only waves at important people? .. I didn't see a way back so I can't be important enough...😟

@@stuartd9741 it's okay. maybe next time.

So they can pay for two sets of legal fees as well on top.

@@paulketchupwitheverything767 Indeed, no matter how the council wastes money or fights action the tax payers end up financing it. The only solution would be to set precedent whereby councillors could (ultimately) be held personally liable for the loss to taxpayers in a civil case. The thought of asset seizure and a CCJ in extreme cases may help to keep people in elected positions of power honest and less inclined to throw other people’s money at sketchy projects.

Those 25000 vehicles include people travelling in both directions so, say, 600 people using the park and ride would be 1200 fewer vehicle journeys, which is about 5%. Things don't scale linearly, so 5% less traffic doesn't necessarily mean 5% shorter journey times. If that 5% reduction takes it from overloaded to running at capacity, it could (in theory) make a significant difference. But, anyway, as the video says, part of the plan was also to upgrade the road. Except they somehow spent £51M on something as simple as a car park.

Dualling plans for the A40 were first mooted in the 60's

I remember when the A40 was 3 lanes wide, we called the middle lane the suicide lane! 😱

@@bobbeats Indeed so. One of several roads (the A5 was another) which had suicide lanes.

There's landscaping too - that's got to be worth 10m at least ;)

Contract extension and scope changes. Estimate was probably less than £10 M

Purple underground trunking suggests fibre based CCTV hookup, plus there seems to be a couple of bog houses on that one building - probably needed a whole few miles of trench and associated works for them to be plumbed in. Oh, and theres the now obligatory EV charging nonsense thats a fair few quids worth of cable that wont be there on opening as the local tarmac botherers enjoy hunting and skinning cables.

Maybe you'd better learn some of the Freemason's mottos?

@@bri_in_brum I think that's where I've gone wrong in life. I've always believed that for things like this, you should pay a contractor for parts, labour, other contractor costs (e.g. fuel, office costs etc) and a reasonable profit margin (say 10%, or at most 20%). Sadly modern construction projects don't run on that basis..

A better idea would be to make the car park a bus station and put on more services to the surrounding towns, so people can still get there without having to drive and park.

That's why they want to build bus lanes. Buses are pretty useless when there is no infrastructure that allows them to skip traffic. With bus lanes it can become faster to take the bus than to drive, making more people take the bus rather than drive, and reducing the number of vehicles on the road. End result is less sitting in traffic for everyone.

@@piggeywig2000 But the bus lanes don’t exist and even if they did you would arrive at the Wolvercote roundabout with all the other cars and hope the Woodstock or Banbury roads were clear. The one scheme they seem to all avoid is the railway reinstatement from Oxford to Witney then onto Carterton.

​@@piggeywig2000a public transit vehicle with its own dedicated path? Might as well commit to rail at that point

@@user-op8fg3ny3j yes, a tram is ideal, but more expensive as it requires ripping up the roads to put rails down.

@@piggeywig2000 True. I'd just wish the councils saved money for it instead of wasting it on half measures

more than just having a plan, the Chinese have a massive population to support... West Oxfordshire County Council definitely don't have that

Definitely a plane. OCC is a pioneer of smart city ideology. .. In the future (after 2030) When OCC bans all car due to the smart city. Having a P&R will be the only way to get into town.

@@MercenaryPen For now! .. wait till they get their fair share of refugees!!

They're wider bays for disabled people who also have EVs. Those things are not mutually exclusive. If you're interested, look into Osprey charging and their efforts to make electric cars more accessible for disabled drivers.

Disabled people also own electric vehicles... The alternative is to give them a choice between being able to charge their vehicles or being able to get out of their vehicles.

@@dave9614 ev's are trash, not even safe for the able bodied..they are not even environmentally better and the list of faults and short fallings goes on..

In fairness Oxford is much better organized with Park and Rides, and there has been work carried out along the A40 further into town, near where the BP and BMW dealer are, and the new developments there are nearing completion.

There's one at Craibstone in Aberdeen with no buses at all. It's a park & ?.

Absolutely my view too. What were they doing there?! Things are just getting worse at worse at the Wolvercote roundabout and no relief road to the A34!

Very interesting. You do that it's the County Council not WODC that is responsible for this project?

Perhaps a good reason why it is not connected to any roads.

Keep smiling mate, hope there's nothing serious going on.

£1m for paint & tarmac, £50m for consultants

i like your response its a good question

Well, it is technically a "park and ride".

@@tgheretford well played sir.

Do you mean gypsies?

There's a very high chance road planners do NOT drive....