- Question by: Kit Malthouse
- Meeting date: 22 October 2014
Mr Mayor, I am sure you are aware that this is a chestnut that the city has been chewing on for at least all of my political life in London, which is now, sadly, approaching 20 years, and that nobody has yet come up with a workable solution. However, are you aware that pedestrianisation has been tried in the West End before? Back when I was a councillor at Westminster, on the urging of the businesses in and around Soho to the south of Oxford Street, we put in a pedestrianisation scheme. We had rising bollards and it was closed...