PROPOSED "NEW LOOK” FOR LONDON’S OXFORD STREET.—A pedestrian shopping way built above the traffic. This is part of a £12,000,000 scheme explained by Mr D. Rigby Childs at a recent meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Mr Childs’s plan is for the shopping way to be built, one storey up, without affecting redevelopment of buildings on either side of the street. He claims that a "self-supporting and independent two-level pedestrian deck spanning the roadway and linked to the fronting buildings by bridges” would bring Oxford street to the forefront of the world’s shopping thoroughfares. The "way” would be a mile long, with an unbroken street of shop windows, kiosks, and other premises. Escalators would lead to the road.

Press, Volume C, Issue 29480, 5 April 1961, Page 22

PROPOSED "NEW LOOK” FOR LONDON’S OXFORD STREET.—A pedestrian shopping way built above the traffic. This is part of a £12,000,000 scheme explained by Mr D. Rigby Childs at a recent meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Mr Childs’s plan is for the shopping way to be built, one storey up, without affecting redevelopment of buildings on either side of the street. He claims that a "self-supporting and independent two-level pedestrian deck spanning the roadway and linked to the fronting buildings by bridges” would bring Oxford street to the forefront of the world’s shopping thoroughfares. The "way” would be a mile long, with an unbroken street of shop windows, kiosks, and other premises. Escalators would lead to the road.