I had a look at the much-photographed Charbrigdge Lane (A4421) level crossing yesterday (12/08/2014). It is a single-line level crossing on Bicester's eastern by-pass, but looking westward one can see far away the end of the new 'down' track end, ready to be extended east through the crossing and on to Bletchley. The road was busy yesterday lunch-time, a constant stream of fairly fast road traffic in both directions. I tried to imagine the impact of four crossing closures per hour, double tracks, overhead wires and all that - on a by-pass! There must be, somewhere deep down in officialdom, a plans for an over-bridge, surely? And a bit further east is the level crossing of Station Road, Launton. Just a country lane, this one, but a surprising amount of road traffic yesterday.