'I visited Oxford Street on its first day without traffic – and shoppers were divided'
Oxford Street has gone traffic-free with buses, taxis and cyclists no longer being able to access the famous London high street between 7am and midnight each day
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- Oxford Street fills with shoppers on first traffic-free day.
- Khan hails traffic-free Oxford Street as ‘momentous day’ for London.
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54m ago
The Independent (GB): Almost a kilometre of the busy central London shopping street, between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street, is now traffic-free
40m ago
BBC News: Almost 1km of the popular shopping destination is pedestrianised between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street.
34m ago
Mirror (GB): Oxford Street has gone traffic-free with buses, taxis and cyclists no longer being able to access the famous London high street between 7am
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