Soho should’ve kept the roads closed to cars post Covid. It might just save it from what it’s becoming.
Wow. Another shocking decision from anti-business tyrant Sadiq Khan. How are these businesses supposed to get customers through the door without parking!? And look at all those people (probably unemployed) blocking the doorways – these businesses will be closed within a week if this continues!!! 😡😡
It’s pretty much proven, build stuff like this and the masses will come. There is just an incredibly loud and very vocal online minority, who yell and shout, and show up in very small numbers to consultations and yell and shout some more. They paralyse the conversation and it becomes a click bait war of headlines and just verbal diarrhoea. Slows the process down, and we all lose.
The people who walk and cycle also drive. But the vocal minority mainly drive. It’s a weird phenomenon. The majority is just not loud enough, or willing to pick a fight.
Aside from buses, get rid of all cars in central London.
Abbeville Road is usually horrible for cars. Cars parked both sides plus Chelsea tractors bombing it down both sides, and nowhere to cross. Pedestrianising it would be amazing.
Love pedstrianisation, but I’m annoyed it only seems to be considered in wealthy areas
But traders need access to Dixons /s
Amazing photos. I bet the businesses were fucking raking it in as well.
Promising, but it would be unwise to draw conclusions from a one off (which builds a sense of occasion) trial on a sunny day
Looks amazing, London could be great!
Cities are for people not cars.
Abbeville Road is a really wealthy road, surrounded by dense housing within walking distance. And it’s right next to Clapham South tube. It’s absolutely ripe for pedestrianising.
The sunshine makes a massive difference in those pictures
Ahh nice to see my old road looking amazing in the sun. Should happen on a 4 weekly rolling basis around roads in the area. Gives it a chance to not be every week but walkable to another similar event.
Paris pollution after they added cycling infrastructure and restricted cars.
This reminds me of La Rambla streets in Barcelona, absolutely buzzing!
This is very good 👌
Anyone, feel free to compare Devonshire road in Chiswick during the post-Covid pedestrianisation trials and now. Obviously the trial was sabotaged by the local Tory councillor.
London is such a prime city for this, I don’t know why it hasn’t happened earlier and more, as a large chunk of the residents and tourists don’t drive cars and has really good public transport links.
Soho could easily do it- this was done in minutes on AI. I don’t see how Chinatown managed years ago to be pedestrianised and Old Compton Street, literally two blocks away, has such a hard time getting it done.
That’s wild and awesome. I wish we’d just have a blanket pedestrianisation schema between certain time. deliveries and the like are carried out early morning/evenings. Or maybe do alternative days or something.
Every time a schema like is carried out the atmosphere is electric
This needs to be shown to all the shop owners (RBKC et al) that anything like this because
“if people can’t park directly outside my shop, I’ll go out of business”
If you be great if those shope keepers might comment on takings road ‘closed’ vs road ‘open’
There is not a single high street that would not benefit from pedestrianisation, and I will die on that hill.
But where are those 4 cars and a van supposed to park now? You can’t just expect them to park around the corner or something, this is wokeness gone mad.
They did it on Northcote road in Clapham during the lockdown summers and it was amazing. Properly felt European.
I lived there for many years. It is certainly a road that would benefit from pedestrianisation, at least in the couple of blocks where the bars and restaurants are.
I used to commute through Abbey Road by bike. Depending on time of day it was a fucking nightmare, but who am I to deny those people their fun?
As much as an open air are can be, it’s a liminal place.
If you step back and look at how much land we offer for automobiles and parking of them it’s insane.
They are thinking of turning the main road through our town into a pedestrian only road and I can’t think of anything better they could do – it would be amazing
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Soho should’ve kept the roads closed to cars post Covid. It might just save it from what it’s becoming.
Wow. Another shocking decision from anti-business tyrant Sadiq Khan. How are these businesses supposed to get customers through the door without parking!? And look at all those people (probably unemployed) blocking the doorways – these businesses will be closed within a week if this continues!!! 😡😡
It’s pretty much proven, build stuff like this and the masses will come. There is just an incredibly loud and very vocal online minority, who yell and shout, and show up in very small numbers to consultations and yell and shout some more. They paralyse the conversation and it becomes a click bait war of headlines and just verbal diarrhoea. Slows the process down, and we all lose.
The people who walk and cycle also drive. But the vocal minority mainly drive. It’s a weird phenomenon. The majority is just not loud enough, or willing to pick a fight.
Aside from buses, get rid of all cars in central London.
Abbeville Road is usually horrible for cars. Cars parked both sides plus Chelsea tractors bombing it down both sides, and nowhere to cross. Pedestrianising it would be amazing.
Love pedstrianisation, but I’m annoyed it only seems to be considered in wealthy areas
But traders need access to Dixons /s
Amazing photos. I bet the businesses were fucking raking it in as well.
Promising, but it would be unwise to draw conclusions from a one off (which builds a sense of occasion) trial on a sunny day
Looks amazing, London could be great!
Cities are for people not cars.
Abbeville Road is a really wealthy road, surrounded by dense housing within walking distance. And it’s right next to Clapham South tube. It’s absolutely ripe for pedestrianising.
The sunshine makes a massive difference in those pictures
Ahh nice to see my old road looking amazing in the sun. Should happen on a 4 weekly rolling basis around roads in the area. Gives it a chance to not be every week but walkable to another similar event.
https://preview.redd.it/6k6i6cy3si1f1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c34f488e50d1957286ec68479403202511720428
Paris pollution after they added cycling infrastructure and restricted cars.
This reminds me of La Rambla streets in Barcelona, absolutely buzzing!
This is very good 👌
Anyone, feel free to compare Devonshire road in Chiswick during the post-Covid pedestrianisation trials and now. Obviously the trial was sabotaged by the local Tory councillor.
London is such a prime city for this, I don’t know why it hasn’t happened earlier and more, as a large chunk of the residents and tourists don’t drive cars and has really good public transport links.
https://preview.redd.it/kgqi1r5fti1f1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72d3fdcf59fc9844bba4e9c14ee5f1e08ac7f0d8
Soho could easily do it- this was done in minutes on AI. I don’t see how Chinatown managed years ago to be pedestrianised and Old Compton Street, literally two blocks away, has such a hard time getting it done.
That’s wild and awesome. I wish we’d just have a blanket pedestrianisation schema between certain time. deliveries and the like are carried out early morning/evenings. Or maybe do alternative days or something.
Every time a schema like is carried out the atmosphere is electric
This needs to be shown to all the shop owners (RBKC et al) that anything like this because
“if people can’t park directly outside my shop, I’ll go out of business”
If you be great if those shope keepers might comment on takings road ‘closed’ vs road ‘open’
There is not a single high street that would not benefit from pedestrianisation, and I will die on that hill.
But where are those 4 cars and a van supposed to park now? You can’t just expect them to park around the corner or something, this is wokeness gone mad.
They did it on Northcote road in Clapham during the lockdown summers and it was amazing. Properly felt European.
I lived there for many years. It is certainly a road that would benefit from pedestrianisation, at least in the couple of blocks where the bars and restaurants are.
I used to commute through Abbey Road by bike. Depending on time of day it was a fucking nightmare, but who am I to deny those people their fun?
As much as an open air are can be, it’s a liminal place.
If you step back and look at how much land we offer for automobiles and parking of them it’s insane.
They are thinking of turning the main road through our town into a pedestrian only road and I can’t think of anything better they could do – it would be amazing
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