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Hello, I'm Rob and welcome to Six Minute English, where today we're chatting about a pedestrian topic and six items of related vocabulary.
Hello, I'm Neil.
A pedestrian is someone who walks around rather than travelling by car or bus, but in Rob's sentence he used the adjective and in this context it means dull or uninteresting.
And of course I was making a pun Neil, because of course the show is going to be extremely interesting.
It's about safety on the streets, and where the pedestrianisation is a good thing or not.
Pedestrianisation means changing a street into an area that can only be used by pedestrians.
Well it sounds like a good idea, no traffic,
less noise and air pollution, and no chance of getting knocked down by a car or a bus.
There are plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street, which is one of the busiest shopping streets in London.
That's right, the Mayor of London wants to tackle or make an effort to deal with air pollution in this very busy spot, where the amount of traffic is definitely a problem.
In fact, can you tell me, Neil, what's the average speed of a bus travelling along Oxford Street?
Is it a 4.6 miles per hour?
B 14.6 miles per hour?
Or C 46 miles per hour?
And I think it's 14.6 miles per hour.
A sounds too slow and C sounds too fast.
Okay, we'll find out the answer later on.
The problem is, the traffic doesn't just disappear,