Boris Watch

Brian Le Taxi, appointed by Boris Johnson against all good sense to the chairmanship of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, is in a spot of bother.  Now, this is nothing new, the man is a walking disaster area and what’s more he relishes it, thinking his minor role in London politics entitles him [...]

Sad news for asset-stripping fans everywhere – TfL will just have to make do without one of Boris’s original high-profile appointments Tim Parker has severed all ties with TfL and the Mayor now, and gone off somewhere to do something.  I note there that he’s already been airbrushed out of history, Pyong-Yang style – even [...]

The Tory Troll has done the maths and would have been 11p a week better off in Boris world.  An Anonymous commenter on the post has revealed the mighty tax cutting Tory has given him back six quid, which leaves just £214 to find for his/her yearly Travelcard.
For me, being mainly a bus user with [...]

Just out.  Ones to watch:
Question No: 2697 / 2008
Jenny Jones
How many LCN+ borough cycling schemes put forward for 2009/10 were unfunded in the Transport for London settlement with the boroughs? What is the total number of schemes which have either gone, or are going, through the LCN+ CRISP study process, and now remain without funding?
Jenny’s [...]

The unexpected scrapping of the WEZ (unexpected, that is, by anyone who hadn’t noticed that Boris was a Tory petrolhead) provoked a number of questions along the lines of ‘hang on, how will this affect the proposed cut in CO2 emissions by 2025, amounting to 60% reduction from 1990 levels?’.  Well, at the time, there [...]