Did anyone other than me take the trouble to google this "story" to get the facts?
#1 It's Oxford City rather than the county of Oxfordshire
#2 The city gets carved into 6 zones. If you don't live there you don't get to move from one zone to another directly. Instead you head back out to the ring-road and go around. It's a s**t ring-road so ...good luck with that.... but the journey isn't entirely prohibited.
#3 If you live there, you get a limited number of passes DIRECTLY from zone to zone. You still have the option of going out, around and back in without restriction.
Just to be clear, I'm absolutely not in favour of this kind of nonsense. I bothered to google only because I was appalled at the idea. A 'carrot' approach to build viable local communities would achieve far more than putting barriers up, but none of what I've just written is evident from previous posts on this thread so hopefully this adds a bit of clarity