Boris Watch

My son’s just been teaching me some do-gooding, inclusive, liberal, minority interest appeasing sign language he learned at nursery.  The rhyme he chose to teach me was, of course, Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Sometimes you can’t make it up.

Shock of the week in the blogging world has to be the sudden closure of the superb London Connections, pretty much the best site for transport issues in London around, and apparently the work of one man, who’s now decided to move on.  Obviously that’s up to him, but it does mean there’s a vacuum [...]

Oh dear.  Not many ways to spin this one, I’m afraid, although he tries hard:
London Mayor Boris Johnson has reneged on a pre-election promise that only hotels and restaurants paying a ‘London living wage’ would be promoted by Visit London ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Open and shut case - he promised it, he claimed he [...]

From the BTP’s ‘L Area’ Policing Plan* (London Underground/DLR):
Perception of safety and security
While passenger perceptions of safety while traveling on the Underground and DLR are high,  we strive to always increase this through highly  visible Neighbourhood policing.
To improve passenger perception of safety and security over 2007-08 levels:
At LU stations (currently 80%)
On LU trains (currently [...]

They’re going to hold me to account for … whether the Tubes feel safer again … In those circumstances, I think it’s only right that there should be a considerable measure of democratic control and accountability for the police chief.
Boris, old chap,
If you want to use tube safety as a stick to beat poor old [...]