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It should be possible, with measures on the lines we have suggested, to reduce the volume of traffic in the existing streets to levels that would give a reasonable standard of environment. Certain shopping streets and places where people congregate should, however, be freed of traffic. We think it would be possible, with the traffic circulation pattern we have suggested, to remove traffic completely from The Walk. We also think that London Street and other principal shopping streets in the neighbourhood should be closed to traffic during certain times of the day, as is now the practice in many continental cities, and that this procedure might form part of the scheme for breaking the east-west traffic flows. The introduction of service trolleys might play a useful part in helping shops to meet the problems arising from a policy of this kind.