Sadiq Khan‘s vision of Oxford Street as a peaceful, pedestrian utopia has inelegantly fallen flat on its face just days into the scheme.
We were promised, by glossy digital artwork, gentle crowds of shoppers wafting among green trees, hand-in-hand and beaming as they admired the window displays.
Traffic and buses would have no problem breezing through surrounding roads after being blocked from the thoroughfare, diagrams helpfully demonstrated.
What to make, then, of the scores of cyclists that have this week been jostling with pedestrians and tearing through the new zone, as security guards watched on?
Or of the hard-working black cab drivers who say
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