Exhibition Road

I am very pleased to see that the Kensington & Chelsea council are following my advice and continue to adopt the clean streets approach advocated by Hans Monderman, albiet in slow increments.

The Evening Standard yesterday reported plans for a major makeover of Exhibition Road, home to some of London's top museums. According to the article:

. . .traffic and people will share a York stone and granite surface stretching the width of the street. . . designers will mimic the "naked streets" design in Kensington High Street where roadside railings, unnecessary white lines and signposts were removed to encourage motorists and pedestrians to share the road.

This is great news and I hope they achieve their goal of making the area an "inspiring destination." I applaud every effort to remove the visual cacophony that currently blights London's streetscapes.