Boris Watch

Yahoo reports that the alcohol ban may find opposition. Bob Crow of the RTM transport union is wary of the risk of violence towards staff if they try to enforce the rules with drunk passengers.
“”We are in favour of any measure that will make our members’ lives safer and curb anti-social behaviour, but it appears [...]

Boris has banned booze on tubes, buses, DLR and Tramlink.  I wonder how much of problem this was?  Here’s a snippet from the last TfL Board Meeting in February:
Over the Christmas and New Year period, Underground services performed well.  In particular, there were only two significant incidents.  … . The post event de-briefs have shown [...]

Bojo is planning to reduce his press office from 73 to 50 and cut London’s advertising budget by £2 million.
This is actually a good idea. As well-done as a lot of Ken’s ad campaigns were, it’s rather hard to defend the cost. Another £2 million freed up for other, more important, projects sounds like a [...]

Not through the TfL press centre yet, though, but it’s on the BBC.  It’s seemingly a ban on the drinking of alcohol rather than the carrying of it, which is an important distinction, particularly if you want to take the bus home from the shops.  There’s one omission though:
Mr Johnson said: “I firmly believe that [...]

TfL Press Releases April 2008 - 29
TfL Press Releases May 2008 (so far) - 1
May not mean anything, after all there has been a Bank Holiday weekend in that lot, but we should see about one a day really.
In other rune reading news, over at uk.transport.london John Band thinks the TfL leadership are safe:
[Y]esterday I [...]

Success, ladies and gentlemen, may take years - decades, even - of hard graft and dedication. Failure takes only a moment and a poorly thought-through manifesto pledge.
Our new blond boy hasn’t even had a chance to get over his celebratory hang-over (I kid because I love), and he’s already facing a tube strike. Now, that’s [...]

With the impotence of the London Assembly already established, it seems that much of it’s work will be concerned with restraining the ludicrous Richard Barnbrook. His acceptance speech portrayed him as an almost parodic example of a demagogue - berating the crowd, pounding the stand and looking every bit as if he’s been [...]