On May 24, 2:29*pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
Just heard on the radio that the SoS Transport, Philip Hammond, is
'consulting' Mayor Boris on a £108 million cut to the GLA transport
grant from central government (which rather sounds like a metaphor for
telling BoJo how it's going to be).

Not sure of the proportion these at the moment but a few years back
the grant accounted for around half of TfL's funding.

On the same bulletin I heard that the Mayor has confirmed this morning
that the Western Extension of the Congestion Charge will be scrapped
by the end of the year, so that's a source of income that will no
longer exist.

Isn't he also tweaking the existing congestion charge upwards though? £8 -
£10 or something?

Yes. Pretty sure that was announced long ago - today's announcements
basically seem to be re-announcements, but that's because it signals
the start of the the formal consultation process (as required by
statute). Wonder how much of a spanner in the works it'd be if
Londoners objected en masse...