Bendy buses, remember those? The capacious and efficient people carriers which were removed from busy London bus routes thanks to an election promise (and outright lie about them killing many cyclists – no cyclist in London has ever been killed by an articulated bus) from Boris Johnson.

The reasons given for their removal [PDF]:

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Last week, Boris Johnson visited the London Borough of Hounslow – ostensibly to promote the forthcoming Olympics at a local school and also open an art installation.

The Mayor and 2012 Olympics Chair Lord Coe first went to Chiswick Community School to publicise the Get Set scheme which saw the school allocated 158 free tickets for [...]

So, Boris (well, Kit Malthouse) have finally grabbed the tiller of the Met, celebrating this great advance in democratic accountability by evicting some democracy protesters, as you do.

For their next trick, they’re holding a series of consultations, in outer London boroughs, at 9:30am, with very little publicity.  Lee Jasper went to the [...]