The level of City Hall funding for borough transport schemes in the capital is set to fall after the Government’s recent spending review slashed Transport for London’s budget. Under plans set out by TfL and City Hall yesterday, boroughs will receive £146m for local transport projects in 2011/12, down from £169m in 2009/10 and £155m […]
Labour AM calls in equality watchdog over traveller site targets
London Mayor Boris Johnson has been reported to the UK’s equality watchdog after dropping a requirement for London councils to build gypsy and traveller pitches from his development strategy. The Mayor has originally included a requirement to provide 238 sites – down from a Government figure of 811 sites – in his draft London Plan […]
DLR workers balloted in conditions row
RMT union members working on the Docklands Light Railway are to ballot for “both strike action and action short of a strike” after the union claimed service provider Serco Docklands failed to consult workers on new pension arrangements and the introduction of new grades.
£23m Christmas bonus for ‘prudent’ Boris
When Boris Johnson appears before the London Assembly later this morning he’ll be be able to share news of a long hoped for Christmas present from Coalition Ministers – a £23m “incentive” for not increasing his share of London’s Council Tax bill. The Mayor, appearing before Assembly Members for the final Mayor’s Question Time of […]
LU claim ticket office sales continue to fall
With RMT union members expected to demonstrate outside City Hall this morning over planned ticket office closures, London Underground bosses have published new figures suggesting ticket office sales have fallen by 15 per cent during the last year. The unions and LU are currently in dispute over plans to close ticket offices with transport bosses […]
