Boris Watch

Despite the endless problems that have plagued Boris’s administration so far, today he found time to deliver one of his rare concrete manifesto promises: a consultation on the Congestion Charge Western Extension.
Now, it may be good that he’s delivering a pledge, but whether it’s a worthwhile pledge is another matter entirely.
The previous Mayor also consulted [...]

Enjoy the summer?  Not sure Boris did, foreign jaunts apart.  Back to work now, so a few dates for the diary, courtesy of the London Assembly RSS feed:

2/9/2008 - The LA Environment Committee will question, amongst others, Sir Simon Milton and a chap called Richard Blakeway I hadn’t heard of before, who’s a Mayoral Advisor.
3/9/2008 [...]

Thanks to Mr. Darling’s masterful intervention over the weekend the pound has again plummeted.  Therefore the $32m annually that Boris has rejected due to his scrapping of the Venezuela deal is now worth:
£17,754,106
or about 9% more than when Boris took over.
The oil price is only about $5/barrel more, but with the fall in the value [...]

The Bus competition has now been bumped back onto the front page of the TfL website, and experts have been hurried into place:
“Alexander Dennis, Britain’s largest bus maker, has deployed 80 development engineers to work on plans for a successor to London’s iconic Routemaster double decker bus.
The news emerged as Transport for London issued a [...]