B-b-but where will the shoppers park??? 😡
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Hooray capitalism
Capitalism is also, and especially, cars.
My concern was always about the bus routes being moved to the back streets. How are they doing?
Backstreet’s back alright
Don’t let good be the enemy of perfect.
Pedestrian street open up all sorts of possibilities for mobility. One example can be street level trams on a fully pedestrian street
You’re assuming it’s not a good faith concern. Oxford Street has been in decline for 20+ years, and if it was going to survive as a shopping destination something was needed to be done.
However, it’s also the most major road that connects west to east apart from Euston Road. After all, it’s called Oxford street because it goes to Oxford. It was a major road once upon a time. Getting rid of cars makes sense to me (back when they did that), as people should be using public transport in the centre. No qualms there.
It’s good that this has been done after the Elizabeth line is up and running as I’m sure that’s taken loads off the bus routes, but as far as I’m aware the bus routes have all been squeezed onto Mortimer Street, which has far less capacity. So I’m interested from anybody using them if the transition is working. It was the only major downside I could think of. When I did shop on Oxford street I used to bus hop quite a lot just to get me from shop to shop.
Yes bus routes was my worry too. When i used to go there a lot and thought about pedestrianisation (and trams or travellators that could be added) I felt like they need to demolish some buildings - probably on the north side, to get more capacity routes both ways.
I guess you could maybe do Brook st from regent st to park lane for some routes.
That said in the old days I used to often get off the bus at Edgware road and walk to TCR (along back streets of course) whenever I needed to go west to east. Usually this would beat the bus at busy times - though you’d end up paying 2x fares - still cheaper than the tube though. Tube is too expensive.
Oxford Street is not named because it goes to Oxford (which it doesn’t in itself, though you can continue westward from it to get there), but rather because the Earl of Oxford owned land near it in the 18th century when the area was being developed. And typically in England, a thoroughfare named for the fact that it goes to Oxford would have been Oxford Road (as, per example, the London Roads in cities near London).
Saying is the other way around. But I get your meaning
Thanks, I always seem to mix up that order.
