£3m of TfL’s budget has already been wasted by Boris Johnson on lobbying for a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary, despite the fact that the Mayor of London has no responsibility for aviation and no jurisdiction over Kent.

Not content with publication of the report Making Connections: Improving the UK’s Domestic […]

It was confirmed today that the Mayor of London has submitted his application as prospective Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip to Conservative Campaign HQ.

Boris Johnson’s current term as Mayor of London does not expire until May 2016 yet his desire to return to Parliament means that, if selected for Uxbridge and […]

@TfLOfficial which idiot in charge decided to buy buses with windows that don’t open? Airless stinky & stuffy. Get rid of them #WasteOfMoney

— Amelia (@milly_lia) July 20, 2014

We could take a guess…

What made me jump on this 148? Which idiot decided to make a bus with […]

The hottest day of the year so far in London today – 30°C.

Boris Johnson has described his “New Routemaster” as having amazing new air conditioning .

TfL Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy has claimed that the new bus, when the cooling is working properly, is cooler than the equivalent latest ordinary […]

Last weekend saw London’s celebration of 60 years of the first prototype of the Routemaster bus – the vehicle which saw regular service on the streets of London for nearly 50 years. Boris Johnson’s New Routemaster (née New Bus For London) is an attempt to ape the external design of (and cash in on […]

It’s the middle of summer and, guess what, reports of sauna-like conditions on the “New Routemaster” vehicles continue.

Transport for London has issued the following statement in response to an enquiry about the manufacture, operation and efficacy of the cooling system on these vehicles:

The manufacturer of the air cooling system is Heavac of The […]

As might have been expected, the poisoned chalice of SSL resignalling (and, we assume, Piccadilly Line signalling as an add-on) has not attracted a great deal of interest from the signalling supply sector – out of the two possible organisations that could have bid, Siemens and Thales, only Thales have decided to submit a […]

Yes, summer is definitely here and so are the very real problems with the temperature and humidity on Boris Johnson’s vanity bus.

Just a few weeks ago, TfL Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy was dismissing the unacceptably hot and humid conditions on these brand new vehicles as “a folk myth” – so how are […]

After last year’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office world tour by two (later three, presumably to cope with the breakdowns) of WrightBus’s Boris Johnson-commissioned New Bus For London vehicles, orders for this “pinnacle of British automotive engineering design” must surely be rolling in in an uncontrollable tsunami of enthusiasm from those countries […]

Now TfL Commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy, is claiming that the unacceptably high temperatures and sauna-like conditions experienced over the past week on the New Bus For London are “a folk myth” – despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Hendy was a guest on the BBC Radio London 94.9