Boris Watch

Another day, another TfL press release asking us to give credit to Boris for something he didn’t start.  Uh-uh.  This time it’s the iBus automated bus information and location system, the rollout of which is now complete across all 8,000-odd London buses:
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘I put providing Londoners with clear concise information [...]

Amid speculation that Boris intends to capture Downing Street (you don’t say?) he arrived as promised (albeit somewhat tardily) at Leadenhall Market this morning, riding on the top deck of a Routemaster with assorted spin doctors, PR, journalists, photographers and er…Gary Rhodes.
The first photographer off the bus greeted his waiting colleagues by giving them the [...]

Via Railway Eye and London Reconnections comes word that London Travelwatch, the rather toothless body charged with representing the London transport user, has noticed a bit of buried bad news in the recent East London Line Extension Phase 2b announcement.  This was the one, you may remember, greeted so warmly a few weeks ago by [...]