Queen Street is a shopping street in central Oxford, England.[1] It is one-way (west to east) for buses and taxis, two-way for cyclists outside main shopping hours, and forbidden for cars. It runs west from the centre of Oxford at Carfax. Here it adjoins Cornmarket Street to the north (also pedestrianized), the High Street continuing east, and St Aldate's to the south.
At the western end is Bonn Square, named after the German city of Bonn with which Oxford is twinned, and the Westgate Shopping Centre, where the old city gate to the west used to be located. New Inn Hall Street leads north from near here. Close by is the mound of Oxford Castle and the old Oxford Prison off New Road, which leads on to the west towards the Oxford railway station.
Until 2009 many of the city's eastbound buses stopped here, and so it was frequently busy with people waiting for a bus.