>The road between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch – 0.7 miles – will be covered by the plans announced today. More changes towards Tottenham Court Road could be planned in future.
Now they just need to make all of Zone 1 pedestrianised
Greenawayer on
Unless Westminster Council actually deals with the American Candy shops Oxford Street is pretty much over as a destination for shopping.
Everyone I know generally goes to Westfields as it’s a much nicer place to shop.
fartbox-enjoyer on
Soho and the surrounds do need to be temporarily pedestrianised. It’s complete fucking carnage on Friday and Saturday nights again.
DismalAd2452 on
I’m struggling to see any possible argument against this. For those who’ve been recently, Oxford Street has become an unpleasant place to walk down. It’s far too busy, noisy, and dirty and seemingly everyone I speak to hates it. Few more trees, more space, and a more relaxed atmosphere would be a massive improvement.
Town centres across the country have been made significantly more pleasant and more popular shopping destinations through pedestrianisation and it’s genuinely shocking it’s taken so long to bring it to parts of Central London.
TheAdequateKhali on
The self-described “blade runners” will be furious about this. “It’s like Nazi Germany or something like that!”
tomoldbury on
He’s going to be standing at the corner personally at Tottenham Court turning people around. Good guy, but you wonder if the mayor could be doing other things with his time.
jimmytruelove on
Am I the only one struggling to parse the title of this post? Is it a comma after the pedestrianised that’s missing?
bateau_du_gateau on
Great! All the big American Candy fans will certainly boost the local economy!
FloydEGag on
There have been proposals to do this for years, going back to long before Sadiq. Let’s see if it actually happens as planned this time.
Robynsxx on
I’m not opposed to this, but Oxford street also has side roads off it, like, what happens to them? Some need cars to go down it to do deliveries. Then, removing cars from this street will just cause increase congestion in the surrounding area.
This is a nice idea, but not very thought out, and the money it will cost could be put to much better use elsewhere.
SufficientWarthog846 on
Honestly, this is a good thing and they should also do it for Soho
Figgzyvan on
Hope the businesses and hotels there don’t want any repairs doing.
I don’t start til 9.
SassySatirist on
Can we also have fast walking lanes? Some of us need to get to places.
Ruhail_56 on
As long as he doesn’t start crying about the high street dying do what you want
ken-doh on
I would like this, however, there are challenges.
Where do the busses go? Are cyclists banned too? How will that be enforced? What about elderly and disabled? I guess there is the back of John Lewis/ marble Arch but those roads will become seriously congested.
Obviously out of hours, delivery vehicles need to get in.
Personally I would leave it as is and just make it taxi and busses only for the entire shopping stretch. Busses are helpful to get around.
Orangesteel on
Long overdue, it’s crazy that it’s been left open to vehicles for this long.
shysaver on
I used to work on great marlborough street which is just behind Oxford Street and going out at lunchtime was so bad with the traffic.
I remember some weekends they temporarily pedestrianised the street and it was great, if a little eerie.
I think pedestrianising it would be good but tbh with the way retail is now I don’t think it would make a difference, but happy to be proven wrong!
goldensnow24 on
Massive pro this but the proposed image render looks pretty uninspired.
PoodleBoss on
Good. Plants lots and lots of trees and green spaces full of wildlife
super_sammie on
I wrote my A level geography assessment / dissertation on this exact scenario 16 years ago. I want some sort of recognition. Nothing major something like renaming it to sams street will be ok.
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>The road between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch – 0.7 miles – will be covered by the plans announced today. More changes towards Tottenham Court Road could be planned in future.
Now they just need to make all of Zone 1 pedestrianised
Unless Westminster Council actually deals with the American Candy shops Oxford Street is pretty much over as a destination for shopping.
Everyone I know generally goes to Westfields as it’s a much nicer place to shop.
Soho and the surrounds do need to be temporarily pedestrianised. It’s complete fucking carnage on Friday and Saturday nights again.
I’m struggling to see any possible argument against this. For those who’ve been recently, Oxford Street has become an unpleasant place to walk down. It’s far too busy, noisy, and dirty and seemingly everyone I speak to hates it. Few more trees, more space, and a more relaxed atmosphere would be a massive improvement.
Town centres across the country have been made significantly more pleasant and more popular shopping destinations through pedestrianisation and it’s genuinely shocking it’s taken so long to bring it to parts of Central London.
The self-described “blade runners” will be furious about this. “It’s like Nazi Germany or something like that!”
He’s going to be standing at the corner personally at Tottenham Court turning people around. Good guy, but you wonder if the mayor could be doing other things with his time.
Am I the only one struggling to parse the title of this post? Is it a comma after the pedestrianised that’s missing?
Great! All the big American Candy fans will certainly boost the local economy!
There have been proposals to do this for years, going back to long before Sadiq. Let’s see if it actually happens as planned this time.
I’m not opposed to this, but Oxford street also has side roads off it, like, what happens to them? Some need cars to go down it to do deliveries. Then, removing cars from this street will just cause increase congestion in the surrounding area.
This is a nice idea, but not very thought out, and the money it will cost could be put to much better use elsewhere.
Honestly, this is a good thing and they should also do it for Soho
Hope the businesses and hotels there don’t want any repairs doing.
I don’t start til 9.
Can we also have fast walking lanes? Some of us need to get to places.
As long as he doesn’t start crying about the high street dying do what you want
I would like this, however, there are challenges.
Where do the busses go? Are cyclists banned too? How will that be enforced? What about elderly and disabled? I guess there is the back of John Lewis/ marble Arch but those roads will become seriously congested.
Obviously out of hours, delivery vehicles need to get in.
Personally I would leave it as is and just make it taxi and busses only for the entire shopping stretch. Busses are helpful to get around.
Long overdue, it’s crazy that it’s been left open to vehicles for this long.
I used to work on great marlborough street which is just behind Oxford Street and going out at lunchtime was so bad with the traffic.
I remember some weekends they temporarily pedestrianised the street and it was great, if a little eerie.
I think pedestrianising it would be good but tbh with the way retail is now I don’t think it would make a difference, but happy to be proven wrong!
Massive pro this but the proposed image render looks pretty uninspired.
Good. Plants lots and lots of trees and green spaces full of wildlife
I wrote my A level geography assessment / dissertation on this exact scenario 16 years ago. I want some sort of recognition. Nothing major something like renaming it to sams street will be ok.