Almost a kilometre of Oxford Street between Orchard Street, near Selfridges, and Great Portland Street, just east of Oxford Circus, is closed to general traffic.
Buses, taxis, private hire vehicles, bicycles, scooters and pedicabs are now diverted away from the stretch as the first phase of the long-awaited transformation gets under way.
Road blocks are installed on Oxford Street on Monday morning
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A plan years in the making
Plans to reduce traffic on Oxford Street are nothing new. Successive London administrations have considered ways of reducing traffic and improving the public realm on the street, while London Mayor Sadiq Khan first…
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