Boris Watch

Fascinating results of a reader’s FOI request published over at London Reconnections, shedding more light on the murky deal between TfL and the DfT over funding ELLX Phase 2.  It quotes what is apparently a communication from the DfT (under Geoff Hoon at the time, although Boris’ mate and new Transport Secretary Lord Adonis was [...]

Via Railway Eye and London Reconnections comes word that London Travelwatch, the rather toothless body charged with representing the London transport user, has noticed a bit of buried bad news in the recent East London Line Extension Phase 2b announcement.  This was the one, you may remember, greeted so warmly a few weeks ago by [...]

New Civil Engineer reports that the annoyingly extended saga of the East London Line Extension Phase 2 may be about to reach a conclusion.
Phase 2 would connect London Overground services from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction, with work to start following the 2012 Olympic Games.
Eh?  I hope NCE are wrong here, ELLX Phase 2 is [...]

I wish I could remember who I was talking to about ELLX Phase 2 (executive summary: a fully cross-party-supported extension of the East London Line to Clapham Junction, and a key test of Boris’s competence and ability to make deals which so far he’s failing on) on Saturday, but it was probably Val Shawcross, who [...]