Boris Watch

More from our car-loving Thatcherite throwbacks at Hammersmith and Fulham – according to the local HammersmithToday website they’ve somehow managed to persuade TfL to stump up £2.5m to widen a road at the Hammersmith gyratory system, in order to speed up cars, along with a bit of traffic light rephasing thrown in and for some [...]

Bear with me on this one.  Dave Hill’s memory hole retrieval of the transport manifesto [PDF] allows us to check the wording of the no strike agreement:
I will look to reduce the disruption caused by strikes on the Tube by negotiating a no-strike deal, in good faith, with the Tube unions.
That’s ‘unions’, plural.  So, if [...]

Go on, guess?  No?  Well, it’s Doug Oakervee’s report on the feasibility, or otherwise, of the Boris Airport idea.  I’ve picked up nothing on this recently, but Murad Qureshi (and, to be fair, Val Shawcross and Darren Johnson, who got the same answer) tried last month:

Question number
1317/2009

Meeting date
21/05/2009

Question by [...]

Jon Snow interviewing Boris on C4 News.  I paraphrase slightly.

BoJo: I’m happy to meet Bob Crow at any time for a beer or whatever, as long as the RMT aren’t striking or in dispute
JoSno: So why haven’t you met them to discuss your manifesto committment to a no-strike agreement
BoJo: There’s never been a time when [...]

I thought ATOC (the industry group representing train operators) would have something to say about TfL’s loud and repeated conviction that Oyster PAYG was valid on all National Rail routes in London today.  ATOC and the train operators are adamant that they only agreed to a few tube-paralleling routes additional to the normal PAYG validity, [...]