It occurred to me the other day that, with Boris’s policies leading to a 8m km cut in annual bus km operated…

from 486m in 2009/10 to 478m in 2017/18 whereas the previous business plan forecast a rise from 488m in 2009/10 to 504m in 2017/18…

and simultaneously a replacement of bendy buses with [...]

Following on from what Helen was looking at yesterday, I’d spotted a quiet nugget on the express bus trial that had escaped attention before.  First, let’s have the manifesto promise:

After talking to local people across outer London I believe there is untapped demand for a select number of new direct, frequent, and reliable services [...]

Via @prj45 on Twitter, I notice that Andrew Gilligan has apparently disappeared off the face of the Telegraph website.  Whether this was a result of a technical hitch or a long-overdue realisation that a ‘London Editor’ who pointedly refuses to recognise any event that took place in London politics post-May 2008 unless [...]

As you may remember, Boris’s 2008 Mayoral Election manifestos mysteriously disappeared from his website soon after the election; the Guardian’s Dave Hill very helpfully retrieved them to aid our memories of Boris’s election promises.

I’ve been re-examining Boris’s Transport manifesto, Getting Londoners Moving, to see how he’s done after more than 18 months [...]