SADIQ KHAN pledged yesterday to scrap Boris Johnson’s proposed “garden bridge” and instead pedestrianise Oxford Street if he’s elected London mayor next May.

The Labour mayoral candidate said the £60 million of public money needed to build the horticultural crossing does not represent value for money.

Instead he would invest in transforming the heaving central London shopping district into a pedestrianised tree-lined boulevard.

“In principle I love the idea of the garden bridge, but what we were sold is a long way from the reality we now face,” Mr Khan told the Evening Standard.

“It has become another of Boris Johnson’s white elephant projects — like the cable car which is used by few at the cost of millions of pounds.

“I believe it no longer represents value for money.”