On 11 Nov 2005 01:44:51 -0800, "Bob"
wrote:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...867957,00.html

The Times reports proposals to rationalise the number of bus routes
running along Oxford Street down to two as part of plans to turn the
area into a boulevard. Would it be a feasible alternative to remove
buses completely and to build a tramway, offering more capacity than a
bendibus because multiple unit operation, from an interchange node at
Tottenham Court Road to one at Marble Arch, possibly as an extension of
the Cross London Tram proposals? (On a frivilous note one could
envisage illuminated trams to go with the Christmas Lights - although
they would no doubt be a pale shadow of those found in a place renowned
for its frolic and fun)

I've always thought that they should take all the bus routes out of
Oxford Street and instead run a free service with the preserved
Routemasters (or RTs, for that matter) between Marble Arch and
Tottenham Court Road.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org