Back in March BBC One London aired Promises, Promises: the Olympic Legacy, a documentary which examined whether the much-promised Olympic legacies would really be delivered. This is am issue of real concern to Londoners who have stumped up the cash for the Games but are unsure exactly how – or if – they’ll benefit so […]
Is TfL helping Boris paint a re-election picture?
Browsing Boris Johnson’s 2012 re-election campaign site I was struck by the familiarity of a couple of the images illustrating blog posts on it – both seem identical (cropping aside) to images contained in the online gallery which Transport for London makes available to the media.
London’s cable car scheme could be a first step to greater financial autonomy
The ‘halo effect’ of a successful cable car scheme would help City Hall bring investment to the nearby Enterprise Zone. If both schemes are managed properly the entire area could be as much of a destination as the South Bank and the car as popular as the London Eye.
Behind the spin, the Mayor’s hybrid bus figures don’t add up
As London Mayor Boris Johnson announces additional hybrid buses for the capital, Darren Johnson looks back at the Mayor’s earlier promise to have more than 350 hybrids on London’s roads by March 2011.
MQT’s – Better Biggs and Boris but where’s Lembit?
Running around the chamber pulling down brightly coloured, oversized trousers, honking each other’s noses and dowsing each other with scraps of paper marked ‘water’ from a fire bucket will no longer be tolerated. That presumably is the message London Assembly Chair Dee Doocey has delivered to Boris Johnson and John Biggs since last month’s Mayor’s […]
