Everyone hates Oxford Street. Will pedestrianisation save it?
The hope is that an unloved and polluted thoroughfare will turn into somewhere that people actually want to spend time In February, the mayor of London…
The Guardian reports that the hope is that an unloved and polluted thoroughfare will turn into somewhere that people actually want to spend time In February, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that Britain’s best-known thoroughfare, Oxford Street, would be pedestrianised.
In a few days the busiest shopping street in Europe will be closed to traffic. To the surprise of every Londoner that I have spoken to in the past few months, it is actually happening.
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