Mizter T wrote:

Maybe the time has come to do something radical here?

How about the city paying for footbridges with glass walls at 2nd floor
level between various large shops, crossing over Oxford Street and also over
side streets such as Orchard Street. This would allow pedestrian phases to
be shortened and pavements to be narrowed. Piezo electric mats on the
footbridges would generate power all day, to be used to run gentle
shimmering walls of light on the sides of the footbridges at night. Joe
public could pay a quid or two to submit images to a website to appear on
the walls for an hour - they'd have to be vetted, obviously - and the best
ones would be rerun during December.

This is, of course, more expensive than previous proposals in this thread
(maybe I should make that sentence my signature?)

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