Deployed at last year’s Notting Hill Carnival and the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph, the force’s adoption of the technology has prompted questions from some London Assembly members concerned whether proper oversight arrangements are in place to govern its use.
Mayor confirms most Crossrail journeys will cost the same as a Tube ride
Mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed that the cost of a zone 1-6 journey on the new Crossrail / Elizabeth Line will be the same as the equivalent Tube fare. Today’s announcement honours a 2013 undertaking from former mayor Boris Johnson and ensures passengers using the new service benefit from Mayor Khan’s four-year fares freeze. Passengers […]
TfL is finally getting less wasteful but a few easy cuts justify neither the restoration of government grants nor a return to fare hikes
If as a result of government cuts and Sadiq’s fares freeze it now has to catch-up with the rest of the public sector and review how many layers of management it needs, and ask whether some functions really need to be carried out by separate teams with similar remits, then this is a very welcome development.
Lord Sugar’s would-be Apprentices or London’s tourism chiefs? It wasn’t always easy to say…
Today’s meeting of the London Assembly’s Budget & Performance Committee will have felt eerily familiar to fans of The Apprentice, and not just because the most recent series culminated with an episode shot in the City Hall chamber
TfL defends bosses accepting hospitality from contractor it exempts from rival bids
Over the period, an initial £122,000 contract to advise and support senior members of staff, including former Transport Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy and successor Mike Brown, has been regularly extended, netting the supplier a total of almost £2m.
