On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 10:10:45 PM UTC+1, Recliner wrote:
Clive Page wrote:
On 09/04/2017 21:34, Offramp wrote:
On Sunday, 9 April 2017 16:47:15 UTC+1, Recliner wrote:

The review found that decisions on the Garden Bridge were driven more by
electoral cycles than value for taxpayers’ money.

I walked along the relevant bit of the south bank the other day and
found that a good many trees had small notices attached, posted by those
opposed to the bridge, pointing out that these quite attractive and
inoffensive trees would all be demolished if the garden bridge was
approved.

Looks like it's all over bar the shouting:

Garden Bridge: London mayor Sadiq Khan withdraws support
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39734050

I suspect that Sadiq was always privately against it, but had to let it
fail on its own terms. That way, Boris gets the blame for the embarrassing
failure of the project, and waste of public funds.

Yes, this was discussed in detail on yesterday's James O'Brien
radio show on LBC.

I've never had a high opinion of our Mayor, but I think he got
this one right. The entire project has been a disgrace and I'm
glad it was not allowed to come to fruition.