Walking through Soho and it already feels weirdly anachronistic to have cars snaking through these narrow cobbled streets. When will London catchup with Paris and pedestrianise the centre?
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When the UK has invented and deployed a reliable, failsafe, 24-hours per day means of identifying and allowing free access to vehicles including a blue badge holder, you can pedestrianise where you like. Until then, not.
But as soon as you suggest it people (who don't live there) are suddenly extremely concerned about grannies needing new boilers, people in wheelchairs who need taxis and businesses needing deliveries. Despite these all having solutions!
When all the companies that need deliveries close up and move out. Advertising/P.R companies use same day couriers more than almost everyone. (Barristers probably just use them more). Will the Black Cabs not bring London to a halt in protest? Disabled theatre goers can go hang i suppose?
(a) deliveries are allowed in designated timeslots (b) courier services are quicker by bike (c) not sure that’s a great reason! (d) disabled access improves because you can allow blue badge/mobility service for drop-off/pick-up and no traffic. (This is why businesses in pedestrianised areas thrive.)
A lot of things can't be carried on bikes, fragile, heavy things. Allowing blue badge holders: it won't be pedestrianised. There's a lot of them. They should look at the old town in Prague, licensed commercial vehicles have passes indicating access permitted. Easy to enforce by cameras/barriers.
A large proportion of journeys are taken by vans and tradesmen. I would just like TFL to have some joined up thinking. Has the businesses on tottenham court road benefitted from being buses only? Albeit with sections still open to vehicles. I want change but it needs to be sustainable.
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