Mayor to be given power to overrule Westminster council, which blocked previous plan amid concerns over rerouting buses
Khan said urgent action was needed so that the mile-long street could “once again become the leading retail destination in the world.”
A 1960s plan to carry shoppers via a travelator and a 1970s scheme for a track carrying cars on air cushions failed to take off. Traffic has been incrementally limited since proposals for pedestrianisation under the formerNow, under the new plans and almost a century after horse and carts were banned in an attempt to end slow-moving traffic, the red double-decker buses and black cabs that queue down Oxford Street would be rerouted elsewhere.
Westminster council’s own vision, a slimmed-down £90m redevelopment plan for the street in partnership with the New West End Company trade body, was given the green light earlier this year – including new seating, lighting and 64 new or improved pedestrian crossings.
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