Boris Watch

Last night, City Hall saw a reception for the British Society of Magazine Editors, hosted by the Mayor (curiously promoted to the rank of Major, for the occasion).
An attendee tweeted the following:
BSME event at City Hall last night still makes me laugh. Boris on why London is better than NYC: it doesn’t need a fruit [...]

MP for Eltham, Clive Efford, has tabled an EDM concerning police numbers in London:
That this House recalls that the Mayor of London promised prior to his election that `it is important for the Mayor to take a public lead, so I will chair the Metropolitan Police Authority’; further recalls that he promised in his manifesto [...]

Watching the webcast of the TfL Board meeting.  We have a definite timetable for the New Bus project:

13/1/2010 – contract signed with Wrightbus
4/2010 – mockup (Boris is confused by this concept, but it’s presumably to test equipment placement in 3D)
12/2010 – engineering prototype (presumably moving?)
5/2011 – testing
12/2011 – delivery of first proper bus
Spring 2012 – [...]

One of the things that’s struck me so far about Oyster on NR is how little people seem to be using it – I’ve not yet seen anyone else touch in at our SWT station and on an early trip I met a couple who’d driven up from M3-land somewhere and parked at our local [...]