what would scooby do

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How long before the first fatality..the first mid intersection fight, muggings etc.

Oh and £5m for that

Anyone else noticed Oxford Street has the most traffic congestion in London but no private cars can use it

MattW

Looks like chaos, people running across when plainly lights are against them.

what would scooby do

100% deffo

All I can imagine is green light go for peds - they all rush out, collide in the middle, fall over then get hit by the buses driven by mouth breathers

Kuohu

Five Million Pounds!!!!!

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Yeah - that would have been £4950000 for the management team, the project managers, the H&S people, the spin doctors etc & 50K for the actual navvies and stone work/paint

SwissTony

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I use that junction most days and as I ****ing hate tourists, keep an eye on the webcam to see me mowing them down

yoza

Madness.

You couldn't pay me enough money to drive a London bus/cab, imagine going through that 10 times a day, never mind the rest of the route....no chance.

Simon K

£5M ? God Im in the wrong business. I so need to get into local government, start milking expenses, and schemes like this.

SBK

alcazar

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£5M??????????

That would have paid off a chunk of the Humber Bridge debt, could have made it free like the Sweaties have done their bridges, maybe injected some life into the economy on Humberside?

Or maybe not

dunx

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Another step towards Americanisation.....

Sigh !

dunx

Snazy

Great idea and much needed. Still wont stop the tourists and toffs just randomly running out in front of cars instead of waiting though. Arseholes.

As for the traffic chaos, thats because you are not allowed to turn anywhere, so any private motorists are just driving about wondering how the hell they turn into the road they want lol.

Its really not that bad to drive through on a normal day. Traffic around there flows "ok"
Yoza, London is no different to most cities, it has its hotspots, and bad times of day, but its really not that bad driving in it

Luminous

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Drove in London once, never again. Even walking in London is like running a race. I've never seen so many people so stressed and locked into their own little world. I just stood jaw dropping in amazement and the number of people actually walking around reading a novel. Their free time must be at such a premium they are not prepared to "waste" a single second of their life just walking somewhere.

Around here, even in peak hours you can average 2 miles every 3 minutes. There are only a couple of places in the area that if your journey is short and totally inside a hotspot that you may have to wait longer than that.

Leslie

As my old flying instructor used to say "bound to lose a few!"

Les

Snazy

lol bloody hell that was like reading a London review in the NoTW or something

Its a city, cities are busy places at the best of times.
Its really not that dramatic. Notting Hill Carnival.... THATS busy, turning on the the Regent/Oxford St lights, is a busy time, and Xmas shopping is a stupid time to be in town IMO.... But other than that, its not too bad. Especially if you know where you are going, and the right time to go.

Taking a proper look at the X walk now, brilliant, and I can quite easily see where the 5M would have gone.

Where is "here" out of interest?