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 site noexpresswayalliance.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 site noexpresswayalliance.org
Layle Morna 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