In-depth: PPP
Mayor calls on Darling to plug PPP ‘black hole’
Boris Johnson has written to Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, requesting that the Government ensure Londoners are not shortchanged after PPP Arbiter Chris Bolt determined that maintenance work to be carried out by Tube Lines could cost more than £1billion above the funds allocated by Government.
RMT Announces Two Tube Strikes
The RMT has announced members working as cleaners and maintenance staff on the London Underground are to stage two strikes over pay.
Metronet Control Passes To TfL
Control of the failed tube contractor Metronet, which collapsed last year after shareholders withdrew support from the company, officially passed to Transport for London at one minute past midnight Monday.
Mayor Appoints New Chief of Staff
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has named businessman Tim Parker as his new Chief of Staff and ‘Chief Executive’ of the GLA Group, City Hall announced earlier today.
Livingstone Sets Out ‘Transport Choice’
Ken Livingstone has said the future of transport in London is ‘the big choice’ facing voters next week.
Negativity at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings
Ken Livingstone, Boris Johnson, and Brian Paddick spent this morning at the Reuters Mayoral Hustings at Reuters House, Canary Wharf where they addressed an audience of business leaders and journalists.
Darling, Brown and Byers - May We Have Our Apology?
Many of the critics who slammed Ken Livingstone’s decision to mount a legal challenge against the Tube PPP are now ministers hoping he’ll secure their party a much needed victory in May’s elections.
Livingstone Vindicated as Brown Bails Out Metronet
The Government yesterday performed a humiliating u-turn when it announced a £1.7bn ‘grant’ to pay creditors of Metronet, the failed PPP operator responsible for maintenance of 9 London Underground lines.
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