Transforming the Tottenham Court Road area

Be interested to hear what people's verdicts are on plans to redevelop Tottenham Court Road/Gower Street area.

Plans look like an improvement but don't know enough about what's going on to give a firm view of my own

http://www.wearecamden.org/westendproject/

West End Project - Transforming Tottenham Court Road Area - YouTube

I see they totally ignored the shoddy junction they've just built at the top of it in that video.

I'm with Gus. It's almost impossible to get a clear idea what it will actually look like outside of the organic crayola flash diagrams they've used. Less piano muzic and more render!

hmmm congested 2 lane roads will become magically uncongested 1 lane roads while also catering to a station being "busier than heathrow airport"...

Underlaying plan must be to triple the congestion charge lol

public consultation is up here. Really piecemeal approach to presenting the information. Bunch of maybe good stuff maybe bad stuff, hard to take it all in really...

seems like they'd need to magic up about another 4m of road width to fit all that in to me, although protected cycle lanes round there might not be a bad thing. That said I've seen more ped collisions on those nearby on Tavistock Place than anywhere else, so they'd need some proper signs and road markings to stop lemmings blindly walking across them.

How much worse can it be I guess.

If separating buses and bikes onto different roads allows them to add protected bike lanes, then it could be worthwhile. Personally it's the St Giles bit that I find worst, and there are no plans mentioned for there.