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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Plan to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street given official go-ahead

A section of Oxford Street was closed to all traffic for part of a day in September.
A section of Oxford Street was closed to all traffic for part of a day in September. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Plans to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street have been given the official go-ahead, with the mayor, Sadiq Khan, promising to create a “world-leading urban space”.

The remaining traffic – buses and taxis but also bikes, e-scooters and pedicabs – should be removed this summer, after a second public consultation on reshaping a central stretch of the capital’s famous shopping street.

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