An eagle-eyed reader spotted this poster hanging in the window of Sainsbury’s Holborn HQ and flagged it up for further investigation. I like to think I’ve as good a grasp of the Cycle Hire scheme’s complex funding arrangements as anyone, but I admit that the involvement of Sainsbury’s was a revelation to me. Asking around […]
Labour’s bizarre pride at repeating Boris’s ticket office mistake
Today’s Standard carries a piece claiming Boris and Transport for London have a secret plan to close every Tube ticket office. The ‘plan’ doesn’t seem that different from the one which has been doing the rounds for years but has prompted a rather excited response from Labour’s Shadow London Minister and claimed Mayoral hopeful Sadiq […]
Revised cable car contract drops anti-Israeli language
Transport for London has just released the revised wording of controversial clauses in its Cable Car sponsorship contract with Emirates. This follows last month’s revelations that the original agreement included a clause allowing the airline to withdraw from the deal should TfL sell or assign the cable car to a “conflicting person”. It also included […]
When is a police radio lost? Not when the Met says it is…
Fairness requires that I flag up as loudly as possible a correction to yesterday’s Met officers lose 2,000 secure radios over past 5 years story. The article was based on a response to an FOI request (not one of mine) published on the Met’s website and although I asked the Met for a comment I […]
TfL continues to defend Emirates contract even as Boris labels it “plainly inappropriate”
Transport for London has continued to defend an anti-Israeli clause in its contract with Emirates despite Mayor Boris Johnson labelling it “plainly inappropriate” and saying it “was completely wrongly drawn up”. Earlier today a number of outlets ran a story based on a City Hall press release in which Andrew Dismore claims the clause could […]
