A draft Action Plan for road safety in London has finally appeared and it gives us all a big opportunity to discuss how we can reduce the number of people regularly dying or being injured on London’s roads. Rather than outline my own ideas, it might be more useful to talk about a few of […]
TfL reveals frequency of Barclays sponsorship payments
In response to an FOI request Transport for London has provided some additional information about the payment arrangements for its £50m Cycle Hire sponsorship agreement with Barclays bank. As previously reported, the bank is the minority funder of the scheme which is projected to cost the taxpayer at least £225m by 2015/16. In its latest […]
Boris pays off TfL after threat to block City Hall backed redevelopment scheme
Transport for London aren’t my biggest fans – the price of writing stories they consider unhelpful has been to fall off their invite list for events such as the launch of the New Bus for London or the taxpayer funded Thames Cable Car. As I’ve mentioned before, they’re not an organisation which likes scrutiny and […]
Financing London – “Please Sir, I want some more”
The London Finance Commission looking into funding for the capital has to take into account the realities of ever tighter central control of all aspects of government, says Damian Hockney. At a time when regions across the EU are having their powers stripped away at the behest of Brussels, there is, he believes, no chance […]
Fairer funding – a bold initiative from Boris we should all support
One policy which really excited me during this year’s City Hall elections was Boris Johnson’s vow to look at a fairer funding settlement for London. I set out at length here why I think London has to “move away from ‘grants’ from central Government for essential services such as fire and police.” As I said […]
