As always with Transport for London’s sponsorship deal with Barclays, each statement and development leaves us with new questions to be answered.
Local councils paid over £4m for the Boris Bike’s expansion into South West London, how much did Barclays pay?
Documents reveal that Transport for London wanted £10m for the naming rights to the South West expansion of the Boris Bikes scheme, how much of this did Barclays eventually pay?
TfL: ‘You cost us £400 every time you ask a damn fool question’
Transport for London complains that answering Freedom of Information requests costs it £400 a time, yet it’s still failing to answer less formal and cheaper requests for information and data.
Barclays Cycle Hire sponsorship deductions now exceed £2m
A new FOI request reveals that Barclays bank has deducted more than £2m from its sponsorship of Mayor Boris Johnson’s flagship bike hire scheme.
City Hall Lib Dems accuse Mayor of being in “denial” over falling Boris Bike use
Mayor Boris Johnson has been accused of being in “denial” over the falling popularity of his flagship cycle hire scheme. According to official Transport for London and City Hall statistics, there were 1,473,824 fewer people hiring bikes in 2013 compared to 2012 – a fall of 15%.