‘It’s positive’: shoppers react to Oxford Street pedestrianisation proposal

Businesses back London mayor’s £150m plan but taxi drivers said they think it will be ‘disastrous’

There are parallels to draw between London’s Oxford Street and Melbourne’s equivalent – Bourke Street. Each has been home to flagship department stores, each attracts tourists and locals in large numbers, and each is recognised as the high street of the city it serves.

But, according to one visitor from Melbourne on Tuesday there is a major difference: “You can smell it – the air [in London] is not very clean.”

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