How will pedestrianisation of UK’s most famous shopping street work in practice?
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The pedestrianisation of a major transport thoroughfare and retail hub like Oxford Street alters how shoppers and traffic move through central London, following decades of planning.
A stretch of London’s Oxford Street is to be vehicle-free as part of £150m government-backed scheme Much of Britain’s most famous shopping street will be closed to traffic from Monday as the long-awaited pedestrianisation of London’s Oxford Street begins. About half of the 1.2 mile street will initially be vehicle-free, after decades of planning and dispute over how to best use the street, an important transport thoroughfare and the home for flagship stores for big shopping chains. Continue read
- •The initial traffic and pedestrian flow adjustments following the Monday closure
- •Expansion plans for the remaining parts of the 1.2 mile street
- •Feedback from local businesses and public transit operators regarding the changes