Boris Watch

Well, the Evening Standard’s certainly changed its tune.  Would you have believed that there was a downside to Boris’s car-friendly policies?  I wouldn’t, if I’d only read the Evening Standard.
That’s all changing now – not one but two pieces, neither of them from ‘transport expert’ Andrew Gilligan, both pointing out that Boris is, by scrapping [...]

Boris is fond of putting professional gloss on the Borisport scheme by referring to Doug Oakervee, his pet engineer on the study and currently Non-Executive Chairman of Crossrail Ltd., in glowing terms as the man who built Hong Kong airport, etc. (although Boris is rather reticent on the fact that Oakervee was originally appointed by [...]