Traffic to be banned from London’s Oxford Street under Sadiq Khan plan

Sadiq Khan maintains that a pedestrianised Oxford Street would enjoy increased footfall and spending, and generate increased tax revenue. Photograph: Justin Kase zsixz/Alamy

Traffic will be banned from London’s Oxford Street under plans announced by the mayor, Sadiq Khan, using new powers from Labour to push through long-thwarted pedestrianisation of the capital’s famous shopping strip.

Khan said urgent action was needed so that the mile-long street could “once again become the leading retail destination in the world.”