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Originally Posted by Damien
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58197626
Complete idiocy.
They wanted to get more people to Oxford Street whose stores are struggling due to the general decline in in-person shopping and because the more attractive Regent Street is taking all the top-end retail stores.
Oxford Street is full of traffic and crappy (and rather suspicious) American Candy Stores.
For as long as I can remember people have been pleading for Oxford Street to be pedestrianised. Make into a massive street where you can have plants, tables outside for cafes and pubs, and lots of room for people to shop rather than being crammed into crowded pavements next to vehicles. People hate Oxford Street because there is no room to move and lots of traffic.
So what do they do? Build a massive pointless hill at the end of it at a cost of £6 million. Idiots.
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Westminster Council knows no bounds to its profligacy. It stood alone in the way of pedestrianising Oxford Street and came up with this daft waste of money. It should pedestrianise Oxford Street and forget this mound of mud.