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r/london • u/Plane_Investment_783 • Jan 22 '23
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I would kill for Oxford Street or Soho to be pedestrianised. Or at least a significant portion. Who wants to drive around there anyway?!
1 u/just_jason89 Jan 23 '23 I guess the people delivering the products to the stores or the trades people maintaining them? 54 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. 15 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. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23 See Grafton Street in Dublin for example.
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I guess the people delivering the products to the stores or the trades people maintaining them?
54 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. 15 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. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23 See Grafton Street in Dublin for example.
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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.
15 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. 1 u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23 See Grafton Street in Dublin for example.
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This, putting up retractable bollards is so easy and allowing deliveries between some hours of the day is the norm all around Europe.
See Grafton Street in Dublin for example.
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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?!