"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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This is a stretch of road that has two bus stops
in it and 4 sets of traffic lights governing traffic
flow into and along it. Oh and which has taxis
allowed into it at its western extremity near Centrepoint.

Not "allowed into it", but forced into it - taxis are not allowed to turn
left from Charing Cross Road into Oxford Street, so any taxi taking a
passenger from the east to Oxford Street must go behind Centrepoint and use
the piece of New Oxford Street you are discussing. AFA Oxford Street is
concerned, there are hardly any places where a taxi is allowed into Oxford
Street, so any taxi taking a passenger to any part of Oxford Street is
forced to drive the entire length of Oxford Street rather than take a less
congested route into the middle of it.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes