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Ultra light rail offers a solution to Oxford Street’s bus jams

Chris Barker, Secretary, London Group, Campaign for Better Transport
05 March 2010
 

Although there are many measures which can be taken to improve the street environment of London’s Oxford Street (rephasing traffic lights, widening pavements, discouraging taxis, reducing the number of buses) it seems to us that these will not be enough (ibid).

To make a real difference leads inevitably to the conclusion that a drastic reduction in traffic is required. This would involve the virtual elimination of through buses and, apart from short sections where the road layout makes...

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