On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:21:06PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:

I would as such consider that there is a serious
case for pedestrianisation, with buses serving passengers either on
all the crossing streets or perhaps on a specially-built bus station
or similar somewhere around the middle. There are plenty of parallel
streets that can take the through traffic.

Most of those parallel streets are quite small, with tight corners at
the intersections. They certainly can't take bendy buses and might have
trouble with proper buses too. Most cabs already use the parallel
streets unless they going to or from an address on Oxford St itself.

I travel on one of the larger parallel streets - Shaftesbury Avenue -
and the closure of Oxford St meant that it, Regent St, Piccadilly
Circus, part of Piccadilly, and Charing Cross Road plus probably some
other stuff that I didn't see, were moving *very* slowly.

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