James Ford: Cars are hardly Oxford Street’s biggest problem, so why does the Mayor insist on pretending they are?

James Ford: Cars are hardly Oxford Street’s biggest problem, so why does the Mayor insist on pretending they are?

James Ford is a columnist for City AM and a former adviser on transport policy to Boris Johnson when Mayor of London. The Mayor of London has decided that he – and only he – can fix Oxford Street. That is why he has created the Oxford Street Development Corporation (OSDC) to run the nation’s high street as a Mayoral Development Corporation. Given that no Mayor of London ever turns down extra powers and every occupant of City Hall since the post …