Freewheeler asks:
Is it a success? Yes and no. It's much better than it used to be. People cross with confidence, and you even see people grinning at the sheer wonder of a diagonal crossing. On the negative side, even a fast walker can only get to the middle before the green woman vanishes. Pedestrians then feel obliged to hurry. This is rushed walking, not relaxed walking. Look at the body postures. People are striding, hurrying. It seems a long way to the other side.
Later, he concludes:
The Oxford Circus scramble is a tiny, tiny concession to pedestrians amidst a vast ocean of wholly unnecessary car dependency and infrastructure which is hostile to walking and cycling. It's typical of our barbaric and backward transport culture that this tiny improvement is trumpeted as some sort of massive and radical transformation.
For the whole thing, complete with photographs, read on. He's a Top London blogger, you know.
