X13 to the JR

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There is not much to choose between the X2 X3 or X13 buses when going from Abingdon to Oxford. They all end up at Oxford City Centre.

The X13 however then goes all the way to the John Radcliffe Hospital (JR). Twenty minutes after dropping people off at the city centre it drops passengers off at the JR. Given that car parking at the JR is so expensive, and difficult to find, it is worth considering next time there is a non emergency situation.

This Sunday between 5.30am to 2pm there will be some disruption to the X13 bus route as a portable building is lifted in position at the JR. It is being put there to help speed up patient admissions at A&E (Accident and Emergency). The JR portakabin service will be led by GPs and provide treatment for patients who could be ‘more appropriately’ helped outside hospital.

The X13 will be diverted to the top end of the hospital while the portakabin is lifted into position.

17 thoughts on “X13 to the JR

  1. Janet

    I recommend seeing the film The Darkest Hour. Thank goodness Hitler did not conquer Britain. However, to another threat, I went to the New Theatre in Oxford last night and security men were bag searching everyone going in. I have also heard that there was a possible terrorist threat to the new Westgate Centre. I recent ruling in a court (held in secret) which heard an appeal from a British National who Joined ISIS and went to Syria and performed attrocities and wanted to come back to Britain. He had a human rights lawyer funded by legal aid. The court ruled that under EU law Britain cannot take his British passport away and he must be let back into Britain. Many good upstanding American and Canadian spouses have been told that they cannot stay in this country, however, terrorists must be allowed to stay. The British public do not think that the law protects them.

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  2. ppjs

    Were you at the court hearing Janet? Do you know the legal arguments that were made and which the court found compelling? I wasn’t; I don’t.

    However, it’s not the courts which are to blame – if blame there is. The responsibility for legislation is Parliament’s. The courts in this country (unlike the situation in the US) have no power to strike down statute law. If we don’t like what is happening, we have to persuade Westminster.

    Talk to the local MP – she has a Palestinian heritage and may have a slightly different approach from the Daily Mail. As it happens, this member of the British public does think that law protects me.

    I am not complacent – I have spent too much time with displaced persons and those of ethnic minorities whose skin tone is not pink, and I grew up with many friends from the West Indian diaspora.

    Of course, we ought to discourage political violence. And immigration control should take that into account. But I want a public policy which is generous rather than hostile. Well-being is not about joining a gym; it is about caring for the alien and the stranger at our gates.

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  3. Janet

    My son and grandchildren live in Scotland and I was in Glasgow airport shortly after two men drove a vehcle into the airport with the purpose of creating a fireball which would have incinerated women, children and babies. The terrorists were not displaced persons but a UK born doctor of Iraqi decent who worked at the Royal Alexender hospital. the other was studying for a Phd in Engineering. Both accepted fully into UK society. What has the Daily Mail got to do with my protests at being blown up and not wanting other victims to suffer as the youths and children in the Manchester bombing.

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  4. Deedee

    PPJS what ever your persuasion it’s just not natural to be so forgiving to the extent of being almost subservient to everyone, no matter what? Would you really of welcomed Hitler (the stranger at the gates) and his bunch of murdering nazis to your door and on this, Holocaust day, just willing marched to your death just to appease?

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  5. ppjs

    Did I say any of that? No. The stranger at the gates is not an enemy; the stranger at the gates is the helpless, vulnerable, homeless, hopeless person who is in need of welcome.

    And, by the way, the Jews in Hitler’s Germany were in a very real sense the strangers at the gates.

    Further, my father was a conscientious objector and his brother was not. They never described the other’s position as “Tosh” and held each other in deep affection and high regard throughout their lives.

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  6. redstone

    Meanwhile – back on topic,,,,, why have bus companies adopted the X prefix for their bus routes? It is a question that has bothered me for some time! It is not across all routes as the 35 service from Abingdon to Oxford is still the 35, It is a national phenomena – why??

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  7. LM

    I think the X might be reference to ‘Express’. The X services use the A34, which is the supposed express route into Oxford.

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  8. pjh64

    Good to see the NHS trying to improve the A&E situation.

    Of course this is a problematic area, by its very nature, capacity is hard to plan (though one might guess Saturday evenings will be busier than other times).

    I hope they will also install a printer capable of issuing invoices to those drunk and abusive idiots that waste NHS’ time, and, from my experience, treat the staff appallingly.

    Those who can afford to get pie-eyed can jolly well make a contribution to the cost of pumping their stomachs.

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