The tourist suction device that is Piccadilly Circus is set for a £14 million redesign. The pedestrian bottleneck will be denuded of a kilometre of barriers and other extraneous street furniture (Eros gets a stay of execution, natch). Additional traffic islands and improved crossings are …
Image by DICKSDAILY Exhibition Road is behaving like a restless toddler this week, waaah-waaahing for attention with THREE stories. First, there’s the ongoing saga of its part-pedestrianisation. You may recall that Kensington and Chelsea Council want to remove kerbs and street furniture, transforming this most …
Hang on, that looks like a bit of street clutter. Burn it. Burn it all. A scheme to part-pedestrianise Exhibition Road will now begin thanks to a £10 million cash injection from TfL. Foot-bound tourists get the opportunity to saunter annoyingly across a cobbled pedestrian …
Oxford Street’s Very Important Pedestrian Day on Saturday was such a success there are calls for it to become permanently pedestrianised. The Evening Standard yesterday ran a cri de coeur to banish fume-belching, noise-throbbing, snail-crawling traffic from London’s world famous shopping district. We’ve been here …
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