Cyclists will be banned from riding through the pedestrianised section of Oxford Street under Sadiq Khan’s plans to ban traffic from the thoroughfare.
The mayor announced on Tuesday that he had secured Government support to re-boot seven-year-old plans to make the “nation’s most famous high street” traffic-free, starting with the stretch between Oxford Circus and Selfridges.
He told the Standard that cyclists would be included the restrictions, which will also remove buses, cars, taxis and delivery vehicles and give priority to pedestrians.
Ross Lydall explains the new plans, and why the issue is so controversial.
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More Agenda21 bullcrap again😂😂😂🤦🏾♂️
An ' expert ' in urban and policy science . It is proven that closing streets into outdoor malls is the death knell for retail and a hell of a destination for homeless encampments…Get ready
No muslim has got the right to take our Country our tradition our culture England is a Christian Country England is our Country not pakistani
What's the plan for food deliveries by mopeds and deliveries of house furnishings 😂
Those opposing this scheme are very much a noisy minority.
Just leave the taxis and buses . Ban the cars ! Unless you are a resident ! Then you have to register your car !
I think babu gungadin is getting some sort of sexual gratification out of manipulating london and surrounding areas.
ULEZ & LTNS & Congestion Charges have Killed London. Nobody is interested in entering any city where you pay almost £50 to enter and park.
No thanks go bankrupt 👍
Sidiq Khan your at fault 😁😀
Your bankrupting London.
'Active travel' and '15-minute cities'.
Nasty little WEF shill is doing his master's bidding – there, explained.
Are they going to put a cover over most of it? In London it's raining half the time.
as some know hes a muslim and goes by the quran ,which goes against smoking drinking gambling ,eating real food and for women not to be seen or heard thats why the burka.peace and love all
It's good idea brother.
this is the man who put up lights at easter no not for are christian country and to celebrate he did it for ramadam.peace and love all
Hopefully lots of jewelers selling mostly gold. Stayed in Luzern for a time and many people would go window shopping, just to look at the watches.
Can someone please get rid off this foolish guy that messed up the country because he is a idot that doesn't have any sense what's so ever
More room for mats every Friday . Union street we be renamed allah street. He only does anything to benefit certain groups
Its not your nation khan
Khan u not fit 4 purpose !
For God sake why doesn’t he spend the money witch he hasn’t got on tackling knife crime or something people actually want
The tiny little mayor is useless and should have gone years ago
It would give the shoplifters and pickpockets easier access to get in and out 😂😂
He wants to make London safe but his Labour Party wants to kill at least 4000 pensioners just another utterly stupid idea from the tiny little tin pot mayor
alot of shops are fronts in the west end.
Serious stores are gone, its stuff like curries and trainer shops now, nothing you cannot do online.
For a lot less.
I see a plan to turn it into 'something else' use wise.
Safer for fleeing shoplifters
Give it another 10 years it will vape shops and barbers 😂
One reason why I stop going to London was ULEZ.. Train is to expensive to get there plus spending money.
Is cheaper to fly for weekend to Prague, Budapest …
Business will drop dramatically, especially for those in the middle (it's 3 miles long) and in a few years they'll scrap it and change it back to the way it was.
This scheme dumps the traffic, the e-bikes and e-scooters, and people on their own bikes, into the residential communities south and north of Oxford Street. What were relatively quiet and safe mainly residential side streets have been turned into dirty city servicing alleyways, littered with litter and dockless e-scooters and e-bikes lying around the dockless parking bays. Delivery vans visit day and through the night. Recycling and waste vehicles grind around the streets several times a day, noise crashing and echoing all around the neighbourhood. ASB has already increased, and this scheme will make all these unsustainable environment problems far, far worse. Pedestrianisation also discriminates heavily against the less-able, whether they live next to Oxford Street or are visitors. There is no mention at all of alternative transport for the less-abled along Oxford Street, and to and from the distant bus stops. Already TfL has overkilled the bus numbers and routes, removing bus tops and services that residents relied on to get to Oxford Street shops, to 'local' health and community services, and to hospitals. This situation will now become much worse. Mayor Khan forgets that voters live in this area.
He's so wrong… the buses need to stay, some people can't walk from one end to the other, especially the elderly and small children. He's already destroyed London and especially the centre…He's an absolute horror of a Mayor, and obviously wants to destroy England's capital city. I guess he's never walked from one end of Oxford st to the other as he's driven everywhere. Dreadful, dreadful little man. He doesn't want to save Oxford st, he wants to destroy it. He seems really happy with the destruction so far. If only Londoners would get their act together and vote this man out, but apathy seems to rule everywhere.
Without listening to the video I'm going to guess: Khan has another really stupid and unpopular idea.
We visited london a few weeks ago, what are these candy stores, selling sugary drinks and fake stuff? You need to build proper infrastructure like Europe such as trams, using electricity, quiet and affordable tickets. Also there lots of crimes at night
Increased pollution in other areas: While air quality would improve on Oxford Street, it could worsen in neighboring streets due to displaced traffic.
Increased congestion on nearby roads: By restricting vehicles from Oxford Street, traffic could be redirected to adjacent streets (e.g., Marylebone Road, Regent Street, and Wigmore Street), leading to heavier congestion in those areas.
It will just push the traffic elsewhere and London will be a deadlock😡
The pedestrians are welcome to it. Nothing there but overpriced tourist stores.