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@puppet_head @VoteTimBarnes Taxis, busses, bikes and delivery vehicles use it, residents, workers, visitors and shoppers use taxis, busses, bikes and delivery vehicles. It is a terrible idea, that will wipe out small independent firms increase emissions and make life miserable for anyone living either side.

@VoteTimBarnes Taxis don’t use it, it’s too slow. At least try and learn before posting.

#Labour’s Mayor of London wants Oxford Street to be more like La Rambla in Barcelona and workaround the “pitfalls” there. But this misses the point. La Rambla was always a wide, low-traffic street, that suited pedestrianisation. Oxford Street is THE major East-West artery for central London. It would have made more sense to look at pedestrianising individual streets nearby, like South Molten Street already has been. The traffic displaced from Oxford Street is not private cars - they went years ago - it’s necessary service traffic, emergency vehicles and the busses and taxis to drop off the very shoppers they are looking to attract! It’s a bonkers plan that will fail in its ambitions for the street while bringing misery to local residents and businesses in the nearby streets. Via @thetimes (£) thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

In loving memory of Stephen Fletcher aka “Gazza” who passed away at Whipps Cross last Saturday in the company of Jimmy in the morning and Gary in the afternoon. Our thanks to @WestminsterXtra and @tomfoot1 @BerW1ckStMarket #soho

Here we go again.

@VoteTimBarnes @ZipcarUK The Mayor is destroying small businesses in the West End. Zipcar is a massive loss. Oxford street oedestrianisation will be final blow.

Policy changes by the Mayor contributed hugely to the collapse of @ZipcarUK - a service used widely in the West End. Now his agenda has new problems and Londoners have, once again, lost out. He needs to focus on the job he has and stop adding ego projects like Oxford Street to his already too long task list. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

#SOHO Fridays @sohosocietyw1 HOUR @sohoradio 7-8am Presenters: @SimLangley & Jason Fisher Jones Guests: @Revstannes Simon Buckley @AnnesSoho & Julien Masse @stormlondonltd talking Christmas ✝️⭐️🎄+ @LondonLivingUK Jim Cooke Listen🎧via app/online #soholondon #Christmas

@_LimeAID @lucy_haine @limewire @limebike @CityWestminster @CllrPLilley @VoteTimBarnes @BerW1ckStMarket @sohosocietyw1 They should be impounded with a minimum £250 release fee for each bike for costs. That will deal with plague 1. Then there is the invisible plague 2 AirB&B which needs exactly the same level of crackdown. It’s eating soho out of house and home and is far more damaging.

@lucy_haine @limewire @limebike @CityWestminster @CllrPLilley @VoteTimBarnes @BerW1ckStMarket @sohosocietyw1 Hi Lucy, thank you for letting us know. We have asked our local operations team to survey the area to address any issues. We appreciate your help.

@limewire @limebike taking over Soho - out of control on #PeterStreet #ingestreCourt #HopkinsStreet @CityWestminster @CllrPLilley @VoteTimBarnes can you help please?

Today is our 10th birthday! To celebrate we’re giving you the day off. Thanks for everything Soho. X @Berw1ckStMarket @Ethicaldog @Soho @SohoSociety

@sohosocietyw1 @thegentleauthor Small businesses with no Covid support (not hospitality) under real pressure now, carrying considerable debt and Bounce Back loan obligations without the Bounce Back - what about lobbying Westminster for small business relief package or government on further BB relief measures?

#SOHO Friday @sohosocietyw1 HOUR @sohoradio 7-8am Presenters: @jpdsoho & @lucy_haine Guests: @kikikendrick on acting, soho & Ice cream & Jonathan Armour @ArmourStudios on expo at GPS SHA Gallery + @LondonLivingUK Jim Cooke Listen🎧via app/online #soholondon #SohoPeople

5 female Journalists from Guardian and observer have the nerve thenerve.news

@HostRobin @adriftinsoho @sohosocietyw1 @WalleyVision @SohoDairy @MayorofLondon @BBCNews @TheSun Many of the redundant offices and department stores could be turned into residential with local amenities at ground level that would make it vibrant and above all real and worth visiting - and living in

@sohosocietyw1 It is also true that tourists want to see red busses and black cabs on Oxford Street - that’s what makes it London.

Were you on Oxford street today what did you think? #OxfordStreet

Very proud of my Warrington wife @kikikendrick Queen of our street and chief maid @SohoDairy Ice Cream Parlour @BerW1ckStMarket #Soho #bbcmakeadifference @BBCLondonNews

@adriftinsoho @sohosocietyw1 @WalleyVision @SohoDairy @MayorofLondon @BBCNews @TheSun (Apologies Bloomsbury)

@adriftinsoho @sohosocietyw1 @WalleyVision @SohoDairy @MayorofLondon @BBCNews @TheSun Oxford street has been dying on its feet for decades, it’s not because it has busses and cabs that are vital to businesses, workers and residents of Soho, Mayfair, Marylebone, Firzrovia and Mayfair. It’s because what it offers is increasingly nondescript and irrelevant.

@adriftinsoho @sohosocietyw1 @WalleyVision @SohoDairy @MayorofLondon @BBCNews @TheSun Oxford Street is one of London’s most powerful economic arteries and that is what needs liberating. We do not need a stagnant civic centre that becomes a crime scene at night. The answer is not booze, it’s industrious innovation. Booze comes later.

@adriftinsoho @sohosocietyw1 @WalleyVision @SohoDairy @MayorofLondon @BBCNews @TheSun Better to reimagine it not concrete over the cracks. What our communities need are parcel depots, storage, recycling, biodigestion , waste management and 10,000 new homes to bring our working community back to life in a powerful economic way fit for the times we live in.