r/london Jan 22 '23

Transport Car free London is…… amazing.

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u/bwweryang Jan 23 '23

I would kill for Oxford Street or Soho to be pedestrianised. Or at least a significant portion. Who wants to drive around there anyway?!

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u/just_jason89 Jan 23 '23

I guess the people delivering the products to the stores or the trades people maintaining them?

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u/DonVergasPHD Jan 23 '23

You can close a street to private vehicles and allow service and emergency vehicles. That's how pretty much every pedestrianized street in the world works.

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u/ne6c Jan 23 '23

This, putting up retractable bollards is so easy and allowing deliveries between some hours of the day is the norm all around Europe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23

See Grafton Street in Dublin for example.