At State Of London on Thursday last I asked Boris, in a slightly roundabout way, why spending £11.4m on five hybrid not-a-Routemasters in two years time was apparently better than spending £5m of Whitehall fiscal stimulus money on 50 off-the-shelf hybrids today.  I got a non-answer as follows (thanks Helen for taking the time to [...]

From the report on roadworks mentioned in the previous post, we get some facts on what actually causes congestion on the roads:

3.1 London has around 20 per cent of the UK’s traffic congestion. This is estimated to cost the Capital’s economy at least £2 billion a year. In 2009/2010, TfL recorded the main causes of [...]

From the Evening Boris/Ken/Oona*

London‘s transport bosses have pledged to consign to history the “roadworks hell” that has plagued drivers this year with a radical package of measures.

Haven’t we been here before?  From 2008:

A scheme to keep London’s traffic moving was unveiled by

Quite apart from the cynical opportunism inherent in UN-hating right wingers suddenly deciding UNESCO should have veto rights over democratic peaceful protest, there’s a major credibility problem at the heart of Boris Johnson’s case against the DemocracyVillage protesters, which is illustrated both by his spokeswoman’s comment:

“Parliament Square is a world heritage [...]