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Article: Will trams return to Regent Street?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1998
- Author:
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THE CHAOTIC clash of pedestrians and vehicles in London's West End
could soon be history if plans to remove all traffic from Regent
Street and the surrounding area are approved. The reintroduction of
trams, which disappeared from the capital's landscape 40 years ago,
is central to the plans.
The Crown Estate, the state body which owns both sides of Regent
Street along with large tracts of the most exclusive parts of central
London, has unveiled plans to make the area more pedestrian-
friendly.
Work on the scheme could start in 2000.
The environmentally-friendly vision includes pedestrianising the