Boris Is Finally Gone Mad !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29146009

Lively ?

[Old_Geezer]

I have no direct experience of the London areas he refers to but it seems to me usage can change over years. Does for buildings, why wouldn't traffic routes convert to pedestrian use ? That said I suspect most times it is done it is done to be seen to be supporting pedestrians and the illusions of green credentials without given proper thought to the pain it brings them when they drive instead. If some areas are deemed to have been an error there's no reason not to correct that. But the cost of the error ought to be placed on the person who pushed the scheme through with insufficient thought, not the poor taxpayer yet again.

[naomi24]

Roads in London, especially around the city and the West End, are generally quite narrow and very cramped. I'm not sure how those areas could realistically be pedestrianised. There's nowhere else for the traffic to go.

[New Judge]

Exactly, Naomi.

Most of central London's streets are decades, if not hundreds of years old and it was never envisaged that swathes of the city would become off limits to vehicles. There are plenty of places that have been designed from the outset at pedestrian zones.