rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just pedestrianise Oxford Street if they want to > ?reinvigorate? it. Most provincial high streets in > England removed traffic decades ago and yet > London?s ?premier shopping street?, is still a > congested, polluted, mess. I guess it would depend on where they re-routed all the buses to. I think it's too late to reinvigorate Oxford Street. It is all becoming like the Tottenham Court Road end always was - full of tourist shops selling cheap rubbish, and huge bizarre candy shops. And chains which just sell the same (boring) stuff you can get in their branches elsewhere. I hope I'm wrong, but like I suspect many people I now do almost all my shopping online (the downside of that obviously being the items sent via Royal Mail which never arrive .....). If there were more quirky independent shops, like in some other nearby areas, and more appealing places to eat, that might help, but I guess they couldn't afford the rents.