Boris Watch

More trouble for Tim Parker to sort out - this does possibly illustrate why a fairly ruthless operator is needed:
EDS has filed a restraining order against Transport Trading Limited, a Transport for London subsidiary, to stop it handing the £100m-a-year Oyster contract to Cubic.
Cubic and EDS were majority partners in TranSys, which ran London’s Oyster [...]

An occasional feature:
Amount TfL would have received from Venezuela in the 2008/9 year if Boris hadn’t scrapped it:

13/3/2008 - £15 755 008
17/7/2008 - £15 969 664
13/8/2008 - £17 049 390
14/8/2008 - £17 188 591

Oh dear…

We’ve previously looked at Boris Johnson’s first culling of the TfL Board, which appeared to signal that only Tories and businessmen should apply.  Now there’s a new announcement of the replacement members to bring it back up to strength, and this time it’s just a tad more representative, although there are lingering worries:
The name that [...]