Oo, lovely, investment in the suburbs, new facilities for cyclists, all the good Boris stuff:
Transport for London (TfL) and the London Borough of Hounslow today unveiled a new foot and cycle bridge that allows pedestrians and cyclists to cross the railway at Bedfont Road in Hounslow in greater safety.
The brand new shared-use bridge, built alongside [...]
A History Lesson For Kulveer Ranger
July 20th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bedfont · bridge · cycling · fail · hounslow · ranger · spin · TfL
The Times Still Flogging A Dead Airport
July 12th, 2009 2 Comments
When, two and a half months late, we wondered where Doug Oakervee’s airport report had gone, it was evident others were thinking along the same lines. After answering the same question from a number of Assembly Members, Kit ‘Airport’ Malthouse and his friends at the Times have produced another one of their airport-pushing puff pieces [...]
Tags: Boris Airport · leaks · oakervee · rubbish · spin · times
Tube Cooling – Diamond Geezer Weighs In
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
Over here.
Tags: cooling · PR · s-stock · spin · tube · underground
Tube Cooling Update : History Rewritten
June 24th, 2009 5 Comments
It’s getting to be a habit, this re-announcing of existing policy as brand-new-Boris-manifesto-rah stuff, accompanying by drooling troglodytes in the Standard comments.
Today’s story is Boris visiting what the Standard describes as an ‘Oxford track’ to run an uneducated eye over the new ‘S-stock’ sub-surface Underground trains, due to start being delivered for the Metropolitan Line [...]
Tags: air-conditioning · cooling · s-stock · spin · tube
Booze Ban Row
June 2nd, 2009 4 Comments
The unions and Val Shawcross are pointing out that Boris’s ‘proudest achievement’ is another case of our beloved Emperor having omitted to get dressed in the morning. How beastly of them:
The RMT’s Steve Hadley said: “They’ve brought it in without financing it properly, and brought it in without adequate staff, and to be quite honest [...]
Tags: ban · booze · ranger · RMT · shawcross · spin
Boris Begs Credit For Not Screwing Up iBus
April 23rd, 2009 9 Comments
Another day, another TfL press release asking us to give credit to Boris for something he didn’t start. Uh-uh. This time it’s the iBus automated bus information and location system, the rollout of which is now complete across all 8,000-odd London buses:
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ‘I put providing Londoners with clear concise information [...]
Tags: bus · Gilligan · ibus · rant · spin
South London Line Woes
April 23rd, 2009 10 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: ellx · overground · rail · sll · spin · travelwatch · victoria
G20: Cowardly Boris and Narrative Failure
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
Right, I’ve been on a sabbatical from blogging for a week or so, owing mainly to a lack of anything interesting to say. This isn’t, obviously, from a lack of anything Boris-related to comment about (clearly), but I’d rather wait until I’ve mulled things over for a bit rather than rushing to the Publish button. [...]
Tags: g20 · met · police · spin
G20: Boris goes into his shell
April 17th, 2009 2 Comments
Boris the turtle – from MayorOfLondon’s TwitPic
Dave Hill’s been doing a lot of excellent coverage on the fallout of the G20 policing: his blog is highly recommended reading.
The key Boris-related theme this week has been the near-total silence of the Mayor on this subject.
From the man who merrily stuck his oar [...]
Tags: g20 · gaffophobia · police · PR · priorities · spin
Boris Spins Another Cancellation
March 31st, 2009 9 Comments
TfL’s budget meeting has, as expected, canned the Greenwich Waterfront Transit and deferred the (rather expensive) Baker Street step-free access project. The spin is, as usual, so heavy in the air you can taste it:
Step change increase in investment to deliver major milestones for Tube upgrades, Crossrail, the East London Line, DLR and Cycle Hire [...]
Tags: baker street · cancelled · gwt · olympics · spin · step free · TfL